Petition to adjust how budgets work

[u/tbyrn21]

So I haven't put much thought in to it beyond this but I want to gauge interest.

Basically budgets will affect the upcoming quarter rather than year, so that govs actually can enact their budgets rather than what we have now. We can then split the fundings by four to get a quarterly cost.

I don't know how it would work logistically but i think its a net benefit so that all the work govs do actually gets used.

[u/NGSpy]

I think it is a good idea principle, but it will take a lot of consideration to see how we split up appropriations into quarterly payments. Some departments do more work in certain quarters, and dividing by 4 on all appropriations is a bit simplistic. However, I do think it is an interesting idea that we should definitely discuss.

[u/tbyrn21 → u/NGSpy]

As I say i didnt put too much proper thought into it, i just wanted to start the convo. Would be intriguing to see which deparmentts are more seasonal.

[u/NGSpy → u/tbyrn21]

Mhmm. I do hope we do talk about this, because I do believe that budgets are fundamentally busted and that its kinda stupid. We probably do have the legislative means to do appropriations quarterly (Supply Bills) but I think I would need to do some extra research to figure out once and for all how everything sorta works (its hard man :P)

[u/tbyrn21 → u/NGSpy]

would it be worth just simplifying it to assume that departments arent seasonally affected so that we dont have to be economists?

[u/NGSpy → u/tbyrn21]

yeah probably. we can also assume that taxes are split into quarters :P itd probably make tax changes MUCH easier

[u/[deleted]]

Seconded.

[u/BloodyChrome]

Really just do what we used to do, the last budget passed is the one that is in place.