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Bill: Income tax proposal of September 2407
Details
Submitted by[?]: Republican Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes to change income taxes. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2409
Description[?]:
| The Republican Party propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Commonwealth of Telamon. Everyone will be taxed the same that has a job. |
Proposals
Article 1
We propose to alter income tax brackets to the following setup. Information about the current income tax system can be found here.
| Bracket | Tax | Estimated Revenue |
| > 1 TPD | 10% | 37,155,000,000 TPD | Total | 37,155,000,000 TPD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:04:55, May 23, 2007 CET | From | Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of September 2407 |
| Message | I am not so sure that we should be taxing the poor. We should be lenient upon those with low incomes, to help them escape the welfare trap. |
| Date | 17:28:35, May 24, 2007 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of September 2407 |
| Message | If we tax the rich, it only makes it fair the tax the poor. |
| Date | 17:34:43, May 24, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of September 2407 |
| Message | This is similar to our proposal, but we can support this as well |
| Date | 17:51:20, May 24, 2007 CET | From | Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of September 2407 |
| Message | Why does taxing the rich make it "fair" to tax the poor? The poor are those that have been least well-served by our system of education, (and other programs) hence they are poor. Furthermore they are less able to afford to pay taxes. |
| Date | 17:54:52, May 24, 2007 CET | From | Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of September 2407 |
| Message | We would have a balanced budget if it weren't for the slashing of those excise taxes. I, for one, will not vote for severe defence cuts just yet. |
| Date | 17:55:30, May 24, 2007 CET | From | Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of September 2407 |
| Message | (ooc: wrong bill... but I swear I was voting on the budget) |
| Date | 18:49:57, May 24, 2007 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of September 2407 |
| Message | The Imperialists are spot-on. It makes no sense whatsoever to make people who cannot so much as buy a litre of petrol or a loaf of bread or vital meds pay tax. I would advocate that sensible people suggest a 3.500 TPD base for taxation, and even then, 10% is far too high. Cannot you realise that when the poor pay 10%, they have FAR LESS leftover than the rich?!? If I earn 20.000 TPD per annum and pay your tax, I have 18.000 TPD left to spend ad libitum. If I earn 1.000 TPD per annum and pay your tax, I have 900 TPD left to purchase everything my family needs in a year. The richer person, in this case, has TWENTY TIMES MORE MONEY THAT THE POORER. This is unacceptable. Even true-blue capitalists would be appalled. Most of us spend more in a fortnight, let alone a month. I urge my colleagues to vote 'NO' on this so-called 'proposal' and further urge my 'proposing' colleague to utter nary a word on this matter until he has his head screwed on straight. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 184 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 271 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 146 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not approve a Cultural Protocol request within the first 48 hours of it being requested. This is in order to give other players a chance to query the proposed changes, if they wish to do so. Moderation may be approached for advice on a proposed change, but any advice proffered should always be understood under the provisio that no final decision will be made until at least 48 hours after the request has been formally submitted for approval. |
| Random quote: "They can call us communists and fascists all they want but, their words are of a hollow ring with the blood of innocence at their feet." - Mathew Jameson, former Hutorian politician |