FT 13-01: Commonwealth Budget for FY2020 (Debating)

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

I thank the first minister for bringing this to the floor.

As I recall, there was discussion in the spring of using Montana as a model for education funding. Do we have an idea of what that would look like on a regional scale?

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

I thank the first minister; though I wonder if it would not be best to calculate funding for education as a per capita dollar amount, as opposed to a percentage? That is unless we already have an idea of the total sum required to fund all social programs. I also agree with the proposal to allocate funds to school districts on the Wyoming model.

I think a grant program would do well to fund institutions like our state libraries (and would have the added benefit of preserving local control of these funds).

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Okay —I think at one point we had this broken down by category (education, emergency services, etc). Do we have those figures? I'm willing to help to the extent that I'm able, but I don't want to put in hours of work if someone else has already done a better job.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

I'll take the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Iowa.

It might be advisable to look into Guam, AS, and NMI as well as Congress is likely to grant these statehood shortly.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Bump. Currently, ten states and the external territories of Guam, AS, and NMI remain unclaimed. If the members would rather we worked through all 18 budgets as a group, that's fine too, but please say so —otherwise I will assume you are hard at work researching and will expect timely results!

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

North Dakota 2019 (Source)
$00,768,543,452     General Government
$05,628,456,101     Education
$04,427,658,576     Health & Human Services
$00,422,623,374     Regulatory
$00,481,184,307     Public Safety
$00,375,303,749     Agriculture & Economic Development
$01,122,082,774     Natural Resources
$01,464,745,404     Transportation
$14,690,597,737     TOTAL

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

South Dakota 2019 (Source)
$0,211,509,231     Executive Management
$0,075,281,830     Department of Revenue
$0,050,660,218     Agriculture
$0,017,569,839     Tourism
$0,093,605,753     Game, Fish, and Parks
$0,000,552,675     Tribal Relations
$1,010,004,913     Social Services
$0,099,540,253     Health
$0,045,229,775     Labor and Regulation
$0,788,503,355     Education
$0,068,647,320     Public Safety
$0,794,063,735     Board of Regents (Public Universities)
$0,025,622,361     Military
$0,012,159,804     Veteran's Affairs
$0,112,395,991     Corrections
$0,409,721,399     Human Services
$0,024,807,503     Environment and Natural Resources
$0,004,570,632     Retirement System
$0,004,810,010     Public Utilities
$0,056,000,951     Unified Judicial System
$0,011,350,591     Legislature
$0,026,525,537     Attorney General
$0,000,888,505     Public Lands
$0,003,042,617     Secretary of State
$0,049,655,034     Treasurer
$0,001,301,883     Auditor
$3,998,021,715     TOTAL

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Assuming sponsorship of this, barring any objections.

Also, a friendly reminder that some people need to start pulling their weight around here.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Scott can still sponsor as long as he's a legal resident in Fremont FYI unless standing orders changed since I was last active in the region.

Indeed, though as he resigned to focus on real-life matters, I wasn't sure if he would still be available.

In any event, the motion is accepted for want of objection.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Minnesota 2020–21 (Source)
$19,735,723     Education (K-12)
$03,276,171     Higher education
$03,654,669     Property tax credits
$15,575,422     Health & human services
$02,377,231     Public safety & judiciary
$00,247,563     Transportation
$00,324,443     Environment
$00,122,422     Agriculture
$00,410,929     Economic development, housing, & commerce
$01,141,122     State government & veterans
$01,255,203     Debt service
$00,276,944     Capital projects & grants
$48,377,842     TOTAL

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Bumping this for the new session.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Passing this budget needs to be our biggest immediate priority. Starting debate on this now.

There's nothing to debate until all state expenditures have been calculated and tallied.

Right, I spoke too soon. Still, we shouldn't leave something this important sitting around.

We have to, because there's literally nothing which can be done or debated about the budget until all 18 states' expenditures have been calculated and integrated into the budget. Which is precisely why the budget has been left sitting around for almost 3 months now.

Perhaps if others would lend a hand with the calculations . . .

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

An alternative to calculating the expenditures of every state would be to take a sample of the 21 state budgets (selected for regional variety), average out the numbers for each category of spending, and adjust it per capita to match the regional population. Thoughts?

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

California 2019–20 (Source)
$005,336,000,000     Legislative, executive, & judicial
$001,438,000,000     Business, consumer services, & housing
$000,304,000,000     Transportation
$003,680,000,000     Natural resources
$000,193,000,000     Environmental protection
$041,929,000,000     Health & human services
$012,783,000,000     Corrections and rehabitation
$058,308,000,000     Education (K-12)
$017,502,000,000     Higher education
$000,138,000,000     Labor and workforce development
$001,286,000,000     Government operations
$003,413,000,000     General government (non-agency dep'ts, tax relief, local gov't, statewide expenditures)
$147,781,000,000     TOTAL

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Arizona 2020 (Source)
$05,171,325     Education (K-12)
$01,776,759     Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
$01,131,776     Corrections
$00,730,924     Economic security
$00,440,900     School facilities board
$00,375,839     Child safety
$00,673,959     Higher education
$00,092,348     Health services
$00,995,269     Other
$11,389,097     TOTAL

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Nevada 2019–21 (Source)
$06,539,748,305     Health & human services
$03,554,301,289     Education
$01,304,579,027     Infrastructure
$00,943,077,683     Special purpose agencies
$00,826,299,273     Public safety
$00,713,749,857     Elected officials
$00,713,749,857     Commerce & industry
$00,261,335,003     Finance & administration
$14,698,544,122     TOTAL

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Utah 2020 (Source)
$00,150,549,000     Elected officials
$00,342,177,000     Adult corrections & board of pardons
$00,172,240,000     Courts
$00,257,278,000     Public safety
$01,700,360,000     Transportation
$00,142,639,000     Other capital budgets
$00,386,892,000     Debt service
$00,153,337,000     Administrative & technical services
$00,042,070,000     Heritage & the arts
$00,337,591,000     Business, economic development, & labor
$04,420,004,000     Health
$00,974,748,000     Human services
$00,932,406,000     Workforce & rehabilitative services
$02,309,126,000     Higher education
$00,293,037,000     Natural resources & energy
$00,164,932,000     Agriculture & public lands
$05,592,141,000     Education (K–12)
$00,006,991,000     Capitol preservation board, Department of Human Resource Management, & career services
$00,118,372,000     National guard & veteran affairs
$00,035,096,000     Legislature
$18,531,986,000     TOTAL

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Hawaii 2020 (Source)
$00,194,693,785     Accounting & general services
$00,053,676,224     Agriculture
$00,105,792,823     Attorney General
$00,334,002,676     Business, economic development, & tourism
$03,464,078,478     Budget & finance
$00,090,140,332     Commerce & consumer affairs
$00,109,245,761     Defense
$02,114,392,207     Education
$00,003,753,711     Governor
$00,053,647,183     Hawaiian home lands
$01,127,871,701     Health
$00,026,508,852     Human resources
$03,621,175,908     Human services
$00,475,057,156     Labor & industrial relations
$00,171,330,918     Natural resources
$00,000,977,555     Lieutenant Governor
$00,296,189,071     Public safety
$00,036,265,728     Taxation (dep't of)
$01,055,368,911     Transportation
$01,244,068,690     Higher education
$15,474,634,533     TOTAL

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Thanks, Roblox! Would you happen to have a source for those figures?

Colorado YYYY
$010,584,303     Corrections
$262,000,000     Education
$010,057,960     Governor
$000,218,825     Higher Education
$015,400,000     Human Services
$000,007,417     Judicial
$051,198,908     Legislative
$357,694,727     TOTAL

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

I have just introduced legislation to reorganize the government as four ministerial departments, exclusive of the office of the first minister: Education, Health and Human Services, Justice, and the Home Office (an umbrella ministry overseeing Commerce, Defense, Indian Affairs, Interior, Labor, and Transport). This is a pre-measure to facilitate the assumption of state expenditures in the next budget. Based on the figures provided above, I have calculated the following per-capita dollar amount for each department which we will then project onto the regional population:

EDUCATION		$2,146 (per capita)		$195.282 B (total)
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES		$1,436 (per capita)		$130.676 B (total)
JUSTICE		$401 (per capita)		$36.491 B (total)
HOME OFFICE		$583 (per capita)		$53.053 B (total)

These figures exclude salaries paid to state governors, legislators, &c.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

COMMONWEALTH BUDGET
for the fiscal year of 2020

I. Revenues.
☞   Income Tax: $47,455,784,846$0K – $125K (0%): $0

$125 – $200K (2%): $1,817,828,865

$200K – $1M (5%): $17,164,944,312

$1M – $10M (10%): $15,153,263,189

$10M – $100M (15%): $10,080,744,669

$100M+ (20%): $3,239,003,811
☞   Excise Taxes: $30,457,309,589Alcohol (15%): $13,087,791,871

Gas & Diesel ($0.30/gallon): $14,653,207,484

Tobacco (15%): $2,716,310,234
☞   Misc. Taxes and Penalties: $61,232,026,604Fremont Carbon Taxation Act: $31,011,738,620

Green Vehicle Promotion Act § 2(ii): $3,602,574,479

Royalties Act:
Coal: $2,877,687,513
Gas: $1,500,722,750
Oil: $11,355,570,000

Gaming Tax: $5,100,495,700

Estate Tax: $2,337,153,746

Drug Tax: $3,446,083,796

Lodging Facility Sales and Use Tax: $5,091,240,579.71
☞   FY2019 Surplus: $181,997,845,008


II. Expenditures.
☞   Tax Credits: $1,660,474,443Green Vehicle Promotion Act §2(i): $1,236,935,443

Teacher's Tax Credit: $423,539,000
☞   Mandatory Spending: $206,060,590,457 (List A)
☞   Discretionary Spending: $415,502,000,000Education: $195,282,000,000

Health and Human Services: $130,676,000,000

Justice: $36,491,000,000

Home Office: $53,053,000,000


TOTAL REVENUES: $321,142,966,047
TOTAL EXPENDITURES: $623,223,064,900
TOTAL SURPLUS: –$302,080,098,853

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

List A.

PAACCA		$600,000,000
TILE		$405,000,000
PPDA		$500,000,000
Earthquake Act		$50,000,000
FremontConnect		$1,000,000,000
LFTR		$5,000,000,000
IPA		$50,000,000
Park Act		$750,000,000
Bank of Fremont Act		$1,540,457
Fremont Promise Act		$3,350,000,000
Urban Act		$250,000,000
Green Act		$20,000,000,000
Warren Act		$618,750,000
Mann Act		$150,000,000,000
Fremont Drug Tolerance and Prevention Act		$55,000,000
Climate Change Act		$1,000,000
Fremont Infrastructure Enhancement Act		$3,000,000
FremontConnect Extension Act		$10,000,000,000
Better Interchanges for Fremont Act		$500,000,000
National Guard Funding Act		$2,000,000,000
Fremont Rural Hospitals Act of 2019		$200,000,000
Korean Wars Memorial Act		$5,500,000
Pacific Railway Reauthorization Act		$10,298,400,000
Nebraska and Iowa Flood Relief Act		$250,000,000
Fremont Healthy Lungs Act		$1,500,000
Fremont Farm Bill of 2019		$5,000,000
Park II		$20,000,000
Frémont Missing Persons and Tribal Nations Act		$1,500,000
Alaska Permanent Fund Bailout Act		$444,000,000

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Deleted one-time appropriations that were still being counted towards 2020 for some reason.

List A.

PAACCA		$600,000,000
TILE		$405,000,000
PARTA		$4,618,000,000
CENORA		$10,424,400,000
PPDA		$500,000,000
Earthquake Act		$50,000,000
FremontConnect		$1,000,000,000
LFTR		$5,000,000,000
IPA		$50,000,000
Park Act		$750,000,000
Bank of Fremont Act		$1,540,457
Fremont Promise Act		$3,350,000,000
Urban Act		$250,000,000
Green Act		$20,000,000,000
Regional Heritage Act		$300,000,000
Warren Act		$618,750,000
Mann Act		$150,000,000,000
Fremont Drug Tolerance and Prevention Act		$55,000,000
Climate Change Act		$1,000,000
Fremont Infrastructure Enhancement Act		$3,000,000
FremontConnect Extension Act		$10,000,000,000
California Natural Disasters Act		$6,000,000
Better Interchanges for Fremont Act		$500,000,000
National Guard Funding Act		$2,000,000,000
Fremont Rural Hospitals Act of 2019		$200,000,000
Korean Wars Memorial Act		$5,500,000
Pacific Railway Reauthorization Act		$10,298,400,000
Nebraska and Iowa Flood Relief Act		$250,000,000
Fremont Healthy Lungs Act		$1,500,000
Fremont Farm Bill of 2019		$5,000,000
Park II		$20,000,000
Frémont Missing Persons and Tribal Nations Act		$1,500,000
Alaska Permanent Fund Bailout Act		$444,000,000

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Alright. Quite obviously we are going to have to find new sources of revenue in order to finance the assumption of state services: fortunately, we have many avenues of approach in this regard, as regional taxes have been relatively low hitherto.

I've taken the liberty of projecting a tiered corporate tax: this is derived from the FY2020 federal budget, adjusted for Frémont's GDP.

☞   Corporate Taxes: $102,451,130,034                                         
0-100K (0%): $0             
100K-1M (15%): $789,215,734               
1M-10M (21.5%): $1,523,753,700                 
10M+ (28%): $100,138,160,600

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

On a related note, going off share of the GDP, a Wealth Tax like the one passed by Congress earlier this year would produce ~$18,431,943,600 by my rudimentary calculations. Together with the corporate tax rates proposed above, that would still leave us with a deficit of around $210 B.