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Bill: Taxing Religion Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Loving Big Brother Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2356
Description[?]:
| This bill is designed to introduce taxation on the income of 'religions' which are not recognised by the State. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: No religions are taxed.
Current: No religions are taxed.
Proposed: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:21:24, February 07, 2007 CET | From | Loving Big Brother Party | To | Debating the Taxing Religion Bill |
| Message | The Loving Big Brother sees a need for this bill. Whereas Aloria has traditionally had a fairly open policy concerning religions, there has been a strange new wave of organisations that call themselves 'religions' but are in fact companies. For instance, the 'Pastafarian' religion is a group which worships the giant God of Pasta by selling pasta at the local super market- without tax, merely because of their claim to be a religion. The last straw was when we heard of the 'Lovers of Rotary' religion involving the mass worship (and sale) of RX-8s. This is clearly ludicrous. After all, who would use an engine without a piston? |
| Date | 08:18:31, February 07, 2007 CET | From | Militant Libertarian Front | To | Debating the Taxing Religion Bill |
| Message | Ha ha. That's quite clever. I commend the Pastarians |
| Date | 17:38:13, February 07, 2007 CET | From | Pensioners' Party | To | Debating the Taxing Religion Bill |
| Message | We support tightening up the rules. Abraham Bridgewater (Leader of the Pensioners' Party) OOC: That thing about the Pastafarians was funny! Maybe I should have set up a Pastafarian Party instead... |
| Date | 19:13:22, February 07, 2007 CET | From |  Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Taxing Religion Bill |
| Message | OOC: You know you can change your party name at the bottom of your party page? |
| Date | 22:16:46, February 07, 2007 CET | From | Pensioners' Party | To | Debating the Taxing Religion Bill |
| Message | OOC: Yep, but I'm gonna stick with being a bunch of militant pensioners :-) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 149 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 451 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play". |
| Random quote: "Politics have no relation to morals." - Niccolo Machiavelli |