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Re:The Icelandic Voting System by morpheuskafka on Sunday April 20, 2025 @01:28AM (#43741709)
Not having a real budget is just a parliamentary procedure tactic, creating pressure opportunities when various continuing resolutions come up. If they have to make a budget they’ll make one, that doesn’t mean they’ll actually stop being partisan fools and put together a good one. It'll still be subject to all the usual nonsense.
Re:The Icelandic Voting System by amanaplanacanal on Sunday April 20, 2025 @12:49PM (#43744909)
Yep. The US has had several years without a budget, and it meant exactly nothing.

Sort of like the debt limit, it leads to a lot of political maneuvering but doesn't actually limit anything.

Re:The Icelandic Voting System by smitty1e on Sunday April 20, 2025 @10:16PM (#43747997)
> meant exactly nothing.

"Excuse me?" said the burgeoning national debt.