( Please answer the questions and return! )
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1) A Senate should be elected officials
representing
geography, or districts.
yes____, no ________, undecided ________
2) A Senate should be proportionally elected?
yes _____, no _______, undecided _______
3) Senators, cabinet members, legislative
representatives should be seperate bodies of elected
officials?
yes ______, no _______, undecided _________
4) District, town, and villages should have
elected police chiefs to control police services by a person
representing the voters of those jurisdictions?
yes _______, no ______, undecided ________
5) The police should be controlled by a political
party as is done now in Belize?
yes ____, no _______, undecided ________
6) Would you vote for your constituents desires,
against political party drafted legislation?
yes _____, no _____, undecided ______
7) Would you vote against your party on matters of
conscience with regard to legislation?
yes ____, no ______, undecided _______
8) The Cabinet should be an elected management or
collegial body with no powers of ministerial
discretion?
yes_____, no ______, undecided ______
9) The Senate should be an elected body,
representing
geography in Belize, or districts against the
legislature population representation, for a check
and balance in the system?
yes ______, no ______, undecided _______
10) The five year term of elected legislative
representatives has proved to be 2.5 years two long
in forty years of Belizean practice. Would you vote
for a reduced term of three years for elected
representatives?
yes______, no ______, undecided ________
11) Would you vote for term limits, of two terms
for elected office, to stop corruption and dictatorial
tendencies developing in Belize?
yes______, no _______, undecided ______
12) Would you support an elected Prime Minister on
a
national ballot?
yes ______, no ______, undecided _______
13) Would you support a one year Prime Minister on
rotation from the Senate?
yes _____, no ______, undecided __________
14) Would you support a one year Prime Minister on
rotation among the Cabinet, by Cabinet vote?
yes _______, no _______, undecided ________
15) Would you support an expansion of the
Referendum
Act in line with other countries, to having public
participation allowed to call referendums by
petition?
At a ratio of 2% of registered voters for national
referendums and 5% of registered voters for local
referendums?
yes ______, no ______, undecided _______
16) Would you vote for mandatory debt limits on
foreign borrowing? e.g.: 20% of five year annual
GOB earnings with freeze until foreign debt went below
12% of five year annual GOB revenues?
yes _______, no _______, undecided _______
17) Would you repeal the life pension for
legislature members?
yes ______, no ______, undecided _________
18) Would you repeal the Indian Hemp laws?
yes _____, no ______, undecided _________
19) Would you support a bill to give property
owners subsurface mineral rights?
yes _____, no _____, undecided ________
20) Would you support the staggering of electing
representatives, so one third were elected each
year, like Belizean Cooperatives? To avoid the formation
of corrupt cabals within the government.
yes _______, no ______, undecided __________
21) Would you support the repeal of the Musa
dictatorship law prohibiting party members from
crossing the aisle in the legislature?
yes_____, no ________, undecided ________
22) Would you support a law banning the holding of
multiple government positions, to fight corruption
in government?
yes _______, no _______, undecided _______
23) Would you repeal all Ministerial Discretion
Cabinet Minister rights and change Belize to
management by laws?
yes _____, no _______, undecided ______
24) Would you require by law an annual budget act,
requiring 50% of national revenues be mandatory
distributed equally to each district?
yes ______, no ______, undecided ________
25) Would you approve of a District elected
Commission of nine members, to manage national
distributed revenues and grant national law
provisions, within their district, as set down by
laws?
yes _____, no _____, undecided _______
26) Would you support an Act that dissolved the
legislature and called for new elections if the
government finances were not audited each year?
yes _____, no _______, undecided _______
27) Would you support a law that cancelled tax
concessions to any favored business that required
foreign exchange to pay dividends, or profits?
yes _______, no ______, undecided ______
28) Would you support a law, limiting tax
concessions to only NEW business in a NEW field of enterprise?
Eliminating multiple follow up tax concessions to
copy cat businesses.
yes ______, no _______, undecided __________
29) Would you support the establishment of a
National Bankruptcy Act?
yes _______, no ______, undecided _______
30) Would you support elected judges for rural,
village and towns?
yes ______, no _______, undecided ________
31) Would you vote for a restructuring of our
policing system?
yes _____, no _______, undecided ________
32) Would you support legislation to accept private
sales of electricity to the national distribution
grid under some standardized formula, open to all
citizens and entrepreneur companies? To enable Belize to
survive catastrophic climatic disasters.
yes _______, no ______, undecided ________
33) Would you vote to support an expansion of the
Village Council and Town Acts to require a quorum of
council members present, to approve expenditures of
funds and require a set of books and receipts for
same, or guilty members suffer mandatory jail time
penalties? Embezzlement has been common in the
current system!
yes ______, no _______, undecided ________
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