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Bill: Tax & Budget Reform, 3808 II
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rutanian Democratic Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes to change the allocation of funds in the budget. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 3809
Description[?]:
| Mr. Speaker, This reform to our budget is needed to take the tax burden off of the citizens of Rutania. The reforms made to each ministry are not extreme nor are they too little. Jenna Scherer Finance Minister |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 22,000,000 RUT | 7,000,000 RUT | 7,000,000 RUT |
| Foreign Affairs | 285,000,000 RUT | 510,000,000 RUT | 510,000,000 RUT |
| Internal Affairs | 2,463,000,000 RUT | 1,210,000,000 RUT | 1,210,000,000 RUT |
| Finance | 150,000,000 RUT | 306,000,000 RUT | 306,000,000 RUT |
| Defence | 5,624,000,000 RUT | 15,600,000,000 RUT | 14,600,000,000 RUT |
| Justice | 285,000,000 RUT | 800,000,000 RUT | 800,000,000 RUT |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 15,313,000,000 RUT | 10,425,000,000 RUT | 9,425,000,000 RUT |
| Health and Social Services | 28,750,000,000 RUT | 14,300,000,000 RUT | 14,000,000,000 RUT |
| Education and Culture | 16,850,000,000 RUT | 14,523,000,000 RUT | 14,200,000,000 RUT |
| Science and Technology | 6,763,000,000 RUT | 8,250,000,000 RUT | 7,250,000,000 RUT |
| Food and Agriculture | 5,931,000,000 RUT | 605,000,000 RUT | 605,000,000 RUT |
| Environment and Tourism | 1,255,000,000 RUT | 605,000,000 RUT | 605,000,000 RUT |
| Trade and Industry | 2,663,000,000 RUT | 605,000,000 RUT | 605,000,000 RUT |
| Total | 86,354,000,000 RUT | 67,746,000,000 RUT | 64,123,000,000 RUT |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:38:35, February 27, 2015 CET | From | Urban Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Tax & Budget Reform, 3808 II |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We cannot support a bill that lowers the funding of our military below 15b Rut. These cuts to spending our dangerous and will ultimately cause more problems to the economy if we pass a budget like this. Johannes Bachmeier |
| Date | 17:58:46, February 27, 2015 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Tax & Budget Reform, 3808 II |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The reforms made to our budget will not effect the military as much as they UPR might think. We are currently not at war and I don't expect we will be at war for decades or even centuries to come. Jonathan Wells Prime Minister |
| Date | 01:32:31, February 28, 2015 CET | From | UNSC (ONI) | To | Debating the Tax & Budget Reform, 3808 II |
| Message | Mr speaker The UNSC will support this, but we do share the Urban Party's concern over the military. It's always best to be prepared to protect yourself and others. |
| Date | 17:10:23, February 28, 2015 CET | From | Communist Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Tax & Budget Reform, 3808 II |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Unfortunately we cannot support this bill. We cannot support the lowering of support in science under 7.5 billion RUT. We are also opposed to the other lowerings, since education, social services and transport are major responsabilities of a government. Thomas Butters, Leader of the Politburo of the CPR |
| Date | 17:11:03, February 28, 2015 CET | From | Communist Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Tax & Budget Reform, 3808 II |
| Message | OOC : Forgot this part * And lowering defence so much is just a form of suicide. |
| Date | 06:42:28, March 01, 2015 CET | From | New Rutania Party | To | Debating the Tax & Budget Reform, 3808 II |
| Message | Mr Speaker, The change in Health and Social services is an unnecessary one. Dan Ahmad, New Rutania Party |
| Date | 06:47:44, March 01, 2015 CET | From | Rutania Conservative Party | To | Debating the Tax & Budget Reform, 3808 II |
| Message | Madame Speaker, It appears to us that a lot of the changes made by the Federalist Party are changes that need not be made. We believe that many changes are many based on ideology and not on necessity. When the Federalists wish to propose something that will benefit Rutania's citizens then we'll back it. Otherwise, we'll continue to oppose ideological changes and will continue to propose workable improvements for the population and will support other Parties that propose Bills that actually aim to aid the people. Cathy Newsome Conservative Party Leader |
| Date | 13:44:45, March 01, 2015 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Tax & Budget Reform, 3808 II |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We would argue the same thing, that the Conservatives only vote based on ideology and not what the people want. We understand that they might think Federalism dooms society but many polls have shown that a majority of Rutanian's support Federalism and Progressivism and a Minority support Conservatism in a Social sense. The argument can go either way and every singe party in this Parliament votes based on the ideology and platform that originally got them elected, it would be foolish to think otherwise. Jonathan Wells Prime Minister |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 208 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 347 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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