The Infustracture Budget

Proposed by A Better Fjordheim · Voting closes 9 Jan 2025

🗳️ Open for voting

Rationale

Fjordheim is lacking badly behind our peers across the board and we need to keep up the pace. Our infustracture is the way our nation operates daily. By increasing spending on all section, we are rasing the bar, and expanding our nation, which goverments were scared. The budget is rasing taxes a bit across the classes, still behind our peers.

Proposed changes

Increase personal income tax rate on low earners from 5% to 10%
Increase personal income tax rate on medium earners from 5% to 15%
Increase personal income tax rate on high earners from 5% to 25%
Decrease spending on healthcare from $14.0bn to $12.0bn
Increase spending on education from $9.0bn to $13.0bn
Increase spending on housing from $3.0bn to $7.0bn
Increase spending on justice, police & internal security from $1.9bn to $6.0bn
Increase spending on defence from $2.0bn to $13.0bn
Increase spending on environment & climate from $0.8bn to $3.5bn
Increase spending on roads & highways from $1.8bn to $4.0bn
Increase spending on public transport & rail from $1.5bn to $5.0bn
Increase spending on energy infrastructure from $1.1bn to $4.0bn
Increase spending on ports & airports from $0.7bn to $2.0bn

This will increase tax take by $43.0bn annually.

This will increase total budgeted spending by $33.7bn annually.

This will increase the annual surplus from $0.8bn to $10.2bn.

Annual Budget

Annual tax take

$48.1bn $91.1bn

Annual spending

$51.0bn $84.7bn

Interest expense

$1.1bn

Unchanged by this budget

Annual Surplus

$0.8bn $10.2bn

Includes $4.8bn a year of income already committed by global decisions

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	5% 10%	$1.2bn $2.3bn
Personal income tax: Medium earners	5% 15%	$5.0bn $15.1bn
Personal income tax: High earners	5% 25%	$7.9bn $39.7bn
Personal income tax: Elite earners	62%	$33.9bn
Total tax take		$48.1bn $91.1bn

Annual Spending

Category	$ per capita	Peers	% of budget	Amount
Social Welfare	$750	$1,045	8.2% 5.0%	$4.2bn
Retirement	$1,429	$1,952	15.7% 9.4%	$8.0bn
Healthcare	$2,500 $2,143	$2,388	27.5% 14.2%	$14.0bn $12.0bn
Education	$1,607 $2,321	$1,652	17.6% 15.3%	$9.0bn $13.0bn
Housing	$536 $1,250	$606	5.9% 8.3%	$3.0bn $7.0bn
Justice, Police & Internal Security	$339 $1,071	$682	3.7% 7.1%	$1.9bn $6.0bn
Defence	$357 $2,321	$835	3.9% 15.3%	$2.0bn $13.0bn
Environment & Climate	$143 $625	$242	1.6% 4.1%	$0.8bn $3.5bn
Business Support	$393	$593	4.3% 2.6%	$2.2bn
Arts, Culture & Media	$143	$258	1.6% 0.9%	$0.8bn
Foreign Aid	$0	$70	0.0%	$0.0bn
Roads & Highways	$325 $714	$386	3.6% 4.7%	$1.8bn $4.0bn
Public Transport & Rail	$260 $893	$309	2.9% 5.9%	$1.5bn $5.0bn
Energy Infrastructure	$195 $714	$234	2.1% 4.7%	$1.1bn $4.0bn
Ports & Airports	$130 $357	$157	1.4% 2.4%	$0.7bn $2.0bn
Total			100.0%	$51.0bn $84.7bn

Voting

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16Yes 0No 19Not voted 35 seats

For: 16 / 35 filled seats (45.7%) — needs 50.0%

Against: 0 · Abstained: 0 · Not voted: 19

Party	Seats	Vote	Reason
A Better Fjordheim Proposer	11	Yes	No reason given
Democratic Liberal Platform	5	Yes	We agree the last budget slashed spending way too harshly across all departments. We need to be smart about our investments instead of cutting budgets in a haphazard way. This budget creates some normalcy again, with taxes still being below peers and choosing to spend to improve the resilience of our economy.
Libertarian Alliance	19	Not voted

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Democratic Liberal Platform

Voted Nov. 10, 2024

Yes

“We agree the last budget slashed spending way too harshly across all departments. We need to be smart about our investments instead of cutting budgets in a haphazard way. This budget creates some normalcy again, with taxes still being below peers and choosing to spend to improve the resilience of our economy.”

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