FT 8-06: Commonwealth Budget for FY2019 (Passed)

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Eckne, do the carbon tax numbers account for the re-appeal of the 2018 tax hike, which was based on misinformation, or no?

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Okay, thanks.

First off, going to add the drug research stuff I forgot to add earlier, and fix the TILE act, as only $405M is appropriated annually. I will also add funding for the Mann and Warren Act, which will be spent via the infrastructure and subsides fund in the 2018 budget until that is used up, with the left overs being spent on this budget.

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Although it might be beneficial to amend the 2017 bill as well, since there is a section that explicitly provides an incorrect revenue estimate that wasn't population-corrected at the time.

That's probably a good idea for record keeping purposes. Post the necessary corrections and I'll introduce a bill although I won't suspend the rules since it's not something that needs to be done now.

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Okay, thanks.

First off, going to add the drug research stuff I forgot to add earlier, and fix the TILE act, as only $405M is appropriated annually. I will also add funding for the Mann and Warren Act, which will be spent via the infrastructure and subsides fund in the 2018 budget until that is used up, with the left overs being spent on this budget.

Just found an additional mistake. The GREEN ACT allocates 80,000,000,000 over four years, so the amount in the budget should be 20,000,000,000.

I'll fix that in the next amendment; I misread the bill when introduced it in the levels of spending in the previous amendment.

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Amendment (just adding the new revenues in - explanation given a few posts above and changing format to match FY2018):

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Alright, pending any last second surprises, here's the plan.

I will officially be suspending Article II Section 3 (to increase the number of slots) and the entirety of Article III as of now (so we can knock this out). Out of fairness to the speaker, since I torture him enough as it is, I will administer the two extra slots.

After the 24 hour objection period is over, I will move the two tax adjustment bills to the floor (not breaking the standings orders as it's per FM request).

I will allow 24 hours of debate and then a 72 hour voting period unless there are any amendments on those two bills.

In the meantime, debate here can continue and hopefully we'll discuss our views on the 3 un-allocated spending proposals I mentioned above.

Once those 2 tax bills have the votes to pass, I will add those 2 bills that are being modified to this thread as an amendment. ON Progressive will be in charge of administrating everything else on this thread, (and Scott, please update the headers) as usual, though I'd prefer to see a final vote 24 hours after I update the bills in this thread. All other bills on the floor (so up to 4 non-budget related slots) can be administered as normal up to the discretion of speaker ON Progressive.

Is that clear everybody? Any questions or problems ask me now.

I am not trying to rush this process and I realize there's been a lot of turnover in this body so some of this may not be familiar with all the laws yet but at the same time, I quite frankly don't want my successor to have to deal with the FY2019 budget seeing this has been on the floor for now six months. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Update: there will now be 3 bills on the floor to correct past mistakes, not 2 but otherwise, in pertains to suspending the rules and the use of extra slots, everything is going as plan. Also seeing that the Deputy GM factored in the mistakes in the above analysis and given I figured out a way to save us the full cost of the Warren and Mann Acts on this year's budget, I just introduced an amendment now with his analysis, correcting a few mistakes, and including 2 of the 3 un-funded bills from last time. One more amendment will be offered before a final vote to fill in the last 2 unknowns (to be down by Eckne) and to update a few links once those 3 bills pass.

Please let me know if you have any input. I feel lonely giving pecking orders and sound like a dictator

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This should be the final amendment. 24 hours to object. This amendment is subject to math errors that will be edited as they arise.

https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Preventing_Atlasian_Anti-Choice_Coercion_Act is the only spending bill I'm leaving out.

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I motion for a final vote.

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I motion for a final vote.

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Aye

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Final text:

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The budget has passed.

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