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Bill: Sales Tax Increase
Details
Submitted by[?]: Party of Moderates
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: June 2377
Description[?]:
| The Party of Moderates advocates a nominal sales tax for essential goods. This should bring in a good sized amount of revenue for a small price to the economy and our citizens. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 0
Proposed: 3
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:31:38, March 20, 2007 CET | From | Independent Right | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | This seems to be acceptable, if slightly too low. Either way, it's an improvement. |
| Date | 01:06:05, March 20, 2007 CET | From | Social Democrats | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | We can agree, the previous system was indeed too extreme. |
| Date | 01:08:25, March 20, 2007 CET | From | Party of Moderates | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | While we're at it, would anyone be uncomfortable with an increase to 5%? |
| Date | 01:22:11, March 20, 2007 CET | From | Independent Right | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | Not us. |
| Date | 01:23:10, March 20, 2007 CET | From | Party of Moderates | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | You just said it was too slightly too low. Your comment is right above. |
| Date | 01:27:00, March 20, 2007 CET | From | Social Democrats | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | We would. Let the changes go slow. We will support in a couple of years. |
| Date | 01:32:51, March 20, 2007 CET | From | Party of Moderates | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | Alright, we'll keep it at 3%. We still want an explanation from the IR. |
| Date | 06:52:30, March 20, 2007 CET | From | Independent Right | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | You asked if we would be uncomfortable with 5%, and we said we would not. We would *not* be *uncomfortable*. Just as the SD answered that they would, the opposite of our response. They WOULD be uncomfortable. |
| Date | 15:20:35, March 20, 2007 CET | From | Aldegar Freedom Party | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | The TCP can only support this bill as a substitute for high income tax and corporation tax - in other words, if the PM was planning to propose this bill in conjunction with a bill decreasing corporation or income tax, replacing these forms of tax with a sales tax which is far more reasonable, then the TCP can support this bill. - sales tax involves far less tedious and unnessicary beuraucracy and doesn't take directly from the money of an individual, and is therefore somewhat more fair. If, however, this bill is going to be irrespective of any decrease in other tax, such as income or corporation, the TCP would be less inclined to support this bill. The TCP is sure that both the Independant Right and the PM would agree that what this nation needs is less government spending and government debt - not more tax to make up for more government spending and debt. Thus, instead of raising taxes, the TCP suggests cutting back on government spending in several unnessicary areas. All of that having been said, the TCP will abstain from this bill, because the party is still undecided, as we are not fully informed as to the intentions of the PM in this bill, but also in the knowledge that it will not make a difference to the bill being passed per se. |
| Date | 22:41:36, March 20, 2007 CET | From | Party of Moderates | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | The PM intended for this bill to replace any income lost in the Corporate Worldwide Competition Act. Since that act has been shot down by the flip-flopping SD party who we are currently not very happy with due to that truth, we encourage the TCP to now vote against this bill. We ourselves will keep our vote for it in order to not embarrass ourselves in front of the public by voting against our own bill. In the future, we shall plan to have greater foresight to avoid such occurrences from happening. In the meantime, we would like to inform the SD that promising support for a bill and then refusing to give it once the bill nearly comes to fruition is not a good way to maintain good relations with the your fellow political parties, especially the one that proposed the bill. |
| Date | 11:05:35, March 21, 2007 CET | From | Aldegar Freedom Party | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | In light of the PM's situation, the TCP will be happy to oblige, and vote down this bill. |
| Date | 17:02:59, March 21, 2007 CET | From | Social Democrats | To | Debating the Sales Tax Increase |
| Message | The outcome suits us even more. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 189 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 461 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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