Constitutional Amendment to Remove the Balanced Budget Requirement

[Platypus]

How about something that says the budget defecit must have a net decrease over a three-budget period?

[Platypus]

obviously, it'd have to be fancier, but that in itself is ok, because it specifies defecit rather then expenditure.

[Platypus]

a.The Senate, over a three-budget period, must decrease any existant budget defecit by at least 2%.

b. Any individual budget can increase or decrease the defecit, but cycles must meet the criteria in a)

c. Cycles of three budgets are fixed with the first cycle starting with the budget of November 2005-February 2006 (I think that's right..).

d. If the budget is in surplus, this bill will not influence any budget deliberations.

there is a basic outline. Someone else needs to fix it up a bit.

[Platypus]

blah. what he said.

[Platypus]

aye

[Platypus]

Abstain

[Platypus]

After consultation with some constituents and seeing the general will of the senate, and also to give the people of Atlasia the chance to decide,

I will change my vote aye

[Platypus]

Let the people decide.

Aye.