The Imperial Dominion of the South's Legislature

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Aye

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Maybe it is not necessary.... all of us are voting very quickly

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No objections, I propose we move on to a substantive and meaningful discussion of my Right-to-Work bill

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This is an adjusted version of the Florida law... I did not realize we had prior right-to-work laws and am not sure what the differences with that are

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I withdraw my bill... I did not realize there was an existing law

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Strongly disagree without specifications.... the amount of bureacuratic bloat in universities is ridiculous, heard  a statistic that for each faculty member there is now an adminitrator. At universities in Florida, schools pay someone 70K a year to be "LGBTQ director" and push political issues...

I am against block funding of any kind and would rather have higher education find ways to reduce funding

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I move to use the budget surplus to provide a rebate to all citizens

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Move to approve the budget

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I thoght the budget was complete with a surplus...

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Well then I move to pass the budget

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Aye

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Has this sh**t officially passed yet?

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Budget Amendment

The budget surplus shall be divided and return to every citizen as a tax rebate

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Seemed by the numbers that we already haev a hell of a rainy day fund so I see no problem with giving all of last year's surplus to the people as a stimulus

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My amendment deals with last years surplus...is that what you are referenceing with the 17 billion?

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Since my amendment deals with last year's surplus, this year's is not affected

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I do not know if i agree with the "so be it" about a deficit... I propose we cut spending across the board to make up for the loss of revenue

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What would you consider wasteful? I am sure I will agree with you

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     FTR, the proposed cuts would necessitate $11 billion in spending cuts.

Leaving the gas tax as is would only necessitate around $3.6 billion.

Clarence, I'm thinking that we should merge and cut the "defense" and "protection" categories.  What say you? Link for reference

PiT, is the $6.6 billion in interest counted in the balance?  Because, barring clarification from the GM, it should not be (and that would let us keep our surplus too).

Yelnoc or PiT- what is the difference between Protection and Defense spending? I would oppose cutting defense

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In that case I would oppose cuts to defense or protection and propose instead the following cuts-

General government- 2 billion
Welfare- 2 billion
Pensions- 2 billion
Transportation- 5 billion

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In that case I propose General government 2 billion dollar cut and Transportation 5 billion dollar....better to cut too much then too little

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In that case I propose General government 2 billion dollar cut and Transportation 5 billion dollar....better to cut too much then too little

But what is the transportation cutting?  And the General Government?  Are we going to have to bring back gas lights?  Shut down MARTA?  Let's think before swinging around our hatchets.

I propose leaving it to the regional Secretary of Transporation...I don't think any specific allocations in the budget, so I say we give them less and see what they think it invaluable enough to cut

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I have a hard time thinking how much a region could have influence on transportatoin...Interstate is federal, local mass transit is done by localities, I just cannot see needing such a large budget for it

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I support your amendment Yelnoc and will follow it with mine which gives the surplus back to citizens... I believe shua's last remark supports that

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Aye