Budget for Retirees

Proposed by Revolutionary Socialist Union · Voting closes 4 Feb 2025

🗳️ Open for voting

The voters demand: Raise retirement spending

Rationale

The government's budget, led by the Alliance party, is anti-pensioners; pensioners deserve a decent budget, not this kind of misery. This budget seeks to fix that problem without changing anything else, neither taxes nor other tax brackets. Yes, debt will be a problem, but what's more important? Debt or pensioners? Obviously all citizens of Costavela deserve their share, including pensioners, not just a few. With this budget, I seek to raise awareness among the parties that voted for the previous budget. The retirees will be witnessing this vote, and for those who vote against it, remember, the retirees will remember it forever

Proposed changes

Increase spending on retirement from $91.5bn to $136.0bn

This will increase total budgeted spending by $44.5bn annually.

This will move the budget from an annual surplus of $3.8bn to an annual deficit of $40.7bn.

Annual Budget

Annual tax take

$670.6bn

Annual spending

$536.7bn $581.2bn

Interest expense

$169.7bn

Unchanged by this budget

Annual Deficit

$3.8bn -$40.7bn

Includes $39.6bn a year of income already committed by global decisions

Would this budget deliver what voters demand?

1 demand would be delivered

Checked against the same test used when a budget passes. Nothing here is decided until the vote closes.

📣 Raise retirement spending

1 party pledged ✅ Would be delivered

Voters want

$2900 / person

Right now

$1951 / person

Under this budget

$2900 / person

Every line of the budget as it would stand if this passes. Rows that change show the budget currently in force the new value.

Annual Taxes

Earning band	Tax rate	Tax take Tax take
Personal income tax: Low earners	18%	$55.6bn
Personal income tax: Medium earners	23%	$177.3bn
Personal income tax: High earners	35%	$340.6bn
Personal income tax: Elite earners	38%	$97.2bn
Total tax take		$670.6bn

Annual Spending

Category	$ per capita	Peers	% of budget	Amount
Social Welfare	$1,066	$1,040	9.3% 8.6%	$50.0bn
Retirement	$1,951 $2,900	$1,952	17.0% 23.4%	$91.5bn $136.0bn
Healthcare	$2,388	$2,389	20.9% 19.3%	$112.0bn
Education	$1,642	$1,652	14.3% 13.2%	$77.0bn
Housing	$597	$606	5.2% 4.8%	$28.0bn
Justice, Police & Internal Security	$682	$676	6.0% 5.5%	$32.0bn
Defence	$853	$827	7.5% 6.9%	$40.0bn
Environment & Climate	$277	$235	2.4% 2.2%	$13.0bn
Business Support	$597	$592	5.2% 4.8%	$28.0bn
Arts, Culture & Media	$235	$258	2.0% 1.9%	$11.0bn
Foreign Aid	$85	$69	0.7%	$4.0bn
Roads & Highways	$384	$386	3.4% 3.1%	$18.0bn
Public Transport & Rail	$305	$309	2.7% 2.5%	$14.3bn
Energy Infrastructure	$228	$234	2.0% 1.8%	$10.7bn
Ports & Airports	$154	$157	1.3% 1.2%	$7.2bn
Total			100.0%	$536.7bn $581.2bn

Voting

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Vote tally

Currently failing

Senado

Failing

45Yes 0No 167Not voted 212 seats

For: 45 / 212 filled seats (21.2%) — needs 50.0%

Against: 0 · Abstained: 0 · Not voted: 167

Party	Seats	Vote	Reason
Alliance	97	Not voted
Costavela Democratic Union	0	Not voted
Costavela Workers' Front	12	Not voted
Revolutionary Socialist Union Proposer	45	Yes	No reason given
Solidarity Alliance	0	Not voted
Youth Of Costa	58	Not voted

Congress of Deputies

Failing

49Yes 0No 221Not voted 270 seats

For: 49 / 270 filled seats (18.1%) — needs 50.0%

Against: 0 · Abstained: 0 · Not voted: 221

Party	Seats	Vote	Reason
Alliance	108	Not voted
Costavela Democratic Union	0	Not voted
Costavela Workers' Front	25	Not voted
Revolutionary Socialist Union Proposer	49	Yes	No reason given
Solidarity Alliance	0	Not voted
Youth Of Costa	88	Not voted

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