• HikingVet
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    Yes, you are, or until you decouple your budget from legislation. I don’t see other countries have issues with funding their operation like this. Seems like a way to allow special interest groups cripple you.

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      looks like you missed the part where the US government cant govern itself, so no permanent budgetary fixes will happen. add to that the fact the democrats are doing everything to conserve everything in place like the conservatives they are.

      the united states is over the hill, heading to fascism and picking up speed.

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        Why does the budget need to be coupled to legislation? Why is it only the US government that operates this way?

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          is the US the only country to have the budget set and passed by the legislative body?

          IIRC, most parliamentary systems, the budget is proposed by the government, but approved by parliament. This is directly analogous to the process used in the US, where the proposals start with POTUS, going to congress for debate.

          Regardless of the details, I think we can all agree that removing legislative bodies from the budgetary process is a great way to create an autocracy; at best, or an authoritarian dictator ship at worse… Which is why in the US, congress has the power of the purse to begin with.

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            How many other countries have other pieces of legislation attached to the budget?

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                So, you don’t know. And no other country has such a dysfunctional when it comes to their budget.

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                  The US is far from the only nation with budget fights and dysfunction in that regard. In fact, I would suggest the only nations that never have these fights are authoritarian dictator ships

                  Looking it up for you because apparently you’re not able to and you’d rather spin a narrative anyhow, It looks like the problem of non-related riders is more problematic than not; to the point that most sources addressing it only bother to mention places that ban non-related legislative riders. From what I can tell Canada, UK, Austrailia and India are all places that allow it in some way.

                  Sorry, not going to do a deep dive here, because even banning riders, deal making around the budget is a normal process. holding budgets hostage is one of the few ways to get controversial things done… and that’s not an exclusive problem to the US.