MA: Repeal of the T-G-I-T-Z-L Mideast High Speed Rail Act of 2013 Act (Debating)

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

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[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I'd prefer if we at least held off on this until we have the re-analysis from the GM on our current budget situation.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I'd prefer if we at least held off on this until we have the re-analysis from the GM on our current budget situation.

Frankly, I don't think a re-analysis of our budget situation will change much; the "Mideast High Speed Rail Act" is too heavy a burden for the Mideast to carry alone since it requires the region to allocate $20 billion dollars from this and next year's budget to the construction of new railway lines, which will in all likelihood lead to a deficit in the years 2013 and 2014.

Thus, I think it's more responsible to kill the bill now, pass our budget and see what we can do with our surplus at a later point.

We can always repeal the HSRA in the actual budget.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

For the record, we used funds from the transportation section of the budget to pay for this.

That wasn't said in the bill.  And I remember talking before that this would use up most of our surplus.  Nobody said that this was to be taken from the transportation section back then.

I'm also not sure how we could take $20B from the transportation section, since the total transportation budget is only $23.25B:

Transportation ($23.25 billion)
$9.00 billion ..... Highways and highway safety (No Change)
$4.00 billion ...... Mass transit (No Change)
$0.25 billion ...... Railroads (No Change)
$2.05 billion ..... Air Transportation (No Change)
$1.05 billion ...... Water transportation (No Change)
$0.45 billion ...... Other transportation (No Change)
$6.45 billion ..... Non-Highway Roads (No Change)

Mass transit and Rail only accounts for $4.25.