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Bill: FP: 1.6 "Small Is Beautiful Initiative"
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federacia Partio
Status[?]: passed
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: May 4475
Description[?]:
| The Federacia Partio propose to adjust the government's spending budget to better address the economic and social situation of the Augustina Imperio de Zardugalo. Many small towns in Zardugal and across southern Majatra are suffering from economic malaise. The rise of massive corporate farms has led to the decline of small landholders. In turn, small town shops have been unable to stay open as the number of people supported by the land has declined precipitously. These bad economic times have led to depopulation as many citizens, especially the young and educated, leave for the big cities. Photographer has traveled in one small corner of Sakvejo and taken these photos in one small town, just one of many: 1. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/06/16/2E2E47E100000578-0-image-a-27_1446825976885.jpg 2. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/06/13/2E2C3E1C00000578-0-image-a-22_1446815890664.jpg 3. https://destinationsmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Porto-8_fran.jpg The recent "1 Million New Businesses Initiative" http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=584810) has allowed great opportunity for small town businesses to get back on their feet. However, they need more foot traffic through their doors. Therefore, the FP, wishes for the national government, alongside provincial and local governments, to create a fund (through a series of advertising, tax incentives, and grants) that will encourage a "return" to the small towns of Zardugal. All of the nation's small towns should be studied by a Ministry of the Interior study (by looking at demographics, poverty levels, welfare rolls, age, financial stability, and social service availability) and classified as "Critically Endangered", "Endangered", "Vulnerable", "Near Threatened", "Single-business Dependent" or "Least Concern". Those classified "Critically Endangered", "Endangered", "Vulnerable", or "Near Threatened" should become eligible for tiered assistance in moving families and entrepreneurs to their locations. Families, should be encouraged to take up residence and improve on rural or small town properties; they are to receive tax incentives for improving the and making them livable once again. Likewise, new businesses should be encouraged through various means to move to these small towns to provide goods and services for the growing populations. Integration aid may be needed for families that move from larger cities to smaller towns deemed "Endangered" by the Ministry of the Interior study. decide to return which should be provided through the Ministry of Health & Social Services. The FP believes that the full funding of this will require Ƶ5.5 billion over to the Ministry of the Interior and asks the government. |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 25,986,179,937 ZAR | 15,000,000 ZAR | 15,000,000 ZAR |
| Foreign Affairs | 35,986,179,937 ZAR | 100,000,000 ZAR | 100,000,000 ZAR |
| Internal Affairs | 25,986,179,937 ZAR | 12,500,000,000 ZAR | 18,000,000,000 ZAR |
| Finance | 19,986,179,937 ZAR | 2,000,000,000 ZAR | 2,000,000,000 ZAR |
| Defence | 54,152,020,700 ZAR | 50,000,000,000 ZAR | 50,000,000,000 ZAR |
| Justice | 20,986,179,937 ZAR | 100,000,000 ZAR | 100,000,000 ZAR |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 25,986,179,937 ZAR | 10,000,000,000 ZAR | 50,000,000,000 ZAR |
| Health and Social Services | 140,986,179,937 ZAR | 30,000,000 ZAR | 30,000,000 ZAR |
| Education and Culture | 140,986,179,937 ZAR | 25,000,000,000 ZAR | 25,000,000,000 ZAR |
| Science and Technology | 25,986,179,937 ZAR | 25,000,000,000 ZAR | 25,000,000,000 ZAR |
| Food and Agriculture | 23,486,179,937 ZAR | 10,000,000,000 ZAR | 30,000,000,000 ZAR |
| Environment and Tourism | 60,120,476,570 ZAR | 2,500,000 ZAR | 2,500,000 ZAR |
| Trade and Industry | 50,986,179,937 ZAR | 100,000,000,000 ZAR | 100,000,000,000 ZAR |
| Total | 651,620,476,577 ZAR | 234,747,500,000 ZAR | 300,247,500,000 ZAR |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 259 | |
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 116 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow official national flags of real-life nations or flags which are very prominent and recognisable (eg. the flags of the European Union, the United Nations, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Confederate States of America). |
| Random quote: "I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist." - Nikita Khrushchev |