Federal Budget Thread

[Filuwaúrdjan]

So then... if your all serious about fiscal responsibility... how much are taxes going up by, how much is defense spending going down by and how much do you think you can save by making Government less "wasteful"?

Honest answers please

[Filuwaúrdjan]

My fake money remark was intended as a joke you know

Thanks for confirming your motives as far as the budget goes.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I will naturally oppose any tax hikes on the hard-working citizens of Atlasia, no matter how much they make. 

See what I mean? You aren't actually serious about doing anything about the budget crisis that might hurt you back home.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Al, I am against tax hikes.   I've said it while I was campaigning and I'll say it again.  The only way for me to correct this budget is through spending cuts, whether you like it or not

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Is this the famous southern charm I've heard so much about?
You catch more flies with honey.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Am I reading this correctly? Your *increasing* defense spending?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

We've been doing that for the last 8 months.  You were in senate voting on it too.

Yes, but I had presumed that whoever is drawing the budget up would cut down on defense patronage (like I've been calling for for ages). I had sorta asumed that if your all serious about cutting a deficit that sort of thing might be cut?
There's probably also case for slashing the amount of money going to those obsessive dam building jackasses in the Corps of Engineers thing...

On reflection here's a suggestion: the Senate gets someone who actually understands how this sort of thing works and isn't ideologically motivated about it, to act as an advisor.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Al, he just went through it cutting out stuff that Atlasia doesn't need.

I know that. And that's a good thing which should have been done earlier.

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Good idea that. Especially as I'm tired and (I suspect) dehydrated (damn air conditioning in reference libraries...)

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Before anything else is done I think the Senate needs to appoint someone who knows about this sort of stuff etc. There are a couple of people hanging around who might fit that.
Otherwise we'll see cuts by grudge (earlier remarks about some people who like to build dodgy dams are included in this) and that isn't a good thing.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh, and you have to update the America under British Politics also

Sure

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There's probably also case for slashing the amount of money going to those obsessive dam building jackasses in the Corps of Engineers thing...

Ironic

But still true
Corps of Engineers priorities are wrong and have been for a while