( Please answer the questions and return! ) ------------------------------------------ 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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