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Bill: Budget proposal of November 2262
Details
Submitted by[?]: Páirtí Sóisialach
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: July 2263
Description[?]:
| The Conservative and Unionist Party propose to adjust the government's spending budget to better address the economic and social situation of the Telamon Commonwealth. |
Proposals
Article 1
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 615,152,741 TPD | 400,000,000 TPD | 1,500,000 TPD |
| Foreign Affairs | 4,613,645,560 TPD | 1,500,000,000 TPD | 500,000,000 TPD |
| Internal Affairs | 7,689,409,266 TPD | 2,100,000,000 TPD | 10,000,000 TPD |
| Finance | 6,151,527,413 TPD | 400,000,000 TPD | 50,000,000 TPD |
| Defence | 17,839,429,497 TPD | 3,900,000,000 TPD | 4,000,000,000 TPD |
| Justice | 4,613,645,560 TPD | 1,750,000,000 TPD | 1,000,000,000 TPD |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 10,765,172,973 TPD | 2,000,000,000 TPD | 25,000,000 TPD |
| Health and Social Services | 21,530,345,945 TPD | 10,000,000,000 TPD | 1,000,000,000 TPD |
| Education and Culture | 7,689,409,266 TPD | 10,000,000,000 TPD | 3,000,000,000 TPD |
| Science and Technology | 10,765,172,973 TPD | 3,400,000,000 TPD | 500,000,000 TPD |
| Food and Agriculture | 21,530,345,945 TPD | 500,000,000 TPD | 300,000,000 TPD |
| Environment and Tourism | 13,840,936,679 TPD | 600,000,000 TPD | 600,000,000 TPD |
| Trade and Industry | 18,454,582,239 TPD | 500,000,000 TPD | 250,000,000 TPD |
| Total | 146,098,776,057 TPD | 37,050,000,000 TPD | 11,236,500,000 TPD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:22:46, July 31, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Budget proposal of November 2262 |
| Message | This is the right budget. Please vote 'yes'. |
| Date | 23:03:50, July 31, 2006 CET | From | Progressive Democratic Party | To | Debating the Budget proposal of November 2262 |
| Message | This is sensible, but do we need such a large surplus? |
| Date | 04:00:52, August 01, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Budget proposal of November 2262 |
| Message | Awful, absolutely awful. You've slashed our budget by two-thirds. You've cut funding towards maintaining our public mass transit system almost entirely. You're reeking havoc on our public education system. Our public healthcare system will collapse. Foreign aid is utterly forgotten. Investments in technology and science gone. Exactly how are we supposed to subsidise drugs for seniors when we only spend 500,000,000 on research and subsidies and other science costs? The DLF will not allow the C&UP to destroy the Telamon Commonwealth any longer. Your class elitism is disgusting. |
| Date | 15:49:40, August 01, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Budget proposal of November 2262 |
| Message | When first I set out on this budget, I thought as you do. I did not want to cut funding to education and suchlike things. However, this country only has about 70.000.000 people. There simply is not the citizenry to justify the sort of spending we used to have. Don't worry, I am gradually ratcheting up income tax and with it, the budget. We have no clue what kind of value the TPD has though we could guess about $500=1TPD. Even if 1TPD=$1, we do not even have as many kids to educate as Britain, so there is no call for 10 million TPD. We are about the size of Spain, so the other budget cuts are roughly reciprocal. Most of the cuts to health, industry, etc. are the result of privatisation. Again, we do not need the copious investment for our few people. I don't think we can control foreign aid, again, this is a developing tool for both the game and myself. Most drugs I have researched cost 10 hundred thousand to develop, meaning that if we paid completely for the drug, we could subsidise around 50 new medicines a year. Not too shabby. I do encourage the Rt Hon. gentleman to reconsider, keeping our size in mind. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 341 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 260 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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