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Bill: Income Tax Elimination Proposal of September 2411
Details
Submitted by[?]: Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition)
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: May 2412
Description[?]:
| The Moderate Libertarian Party propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Democratic Republic of Aloria. This bill will eliminate the income, as much as is permitted, and be replaced by a national sales tax of 10% on luxury goods and 5% on non-luxury goods. |
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 |
| > 10,000 ALO | 1% | 886,000,000 ALO | Total | 886,000,000 ALO |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:12:45, May 30, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Income Tax Elimination Proposal of September 2411 |
| Message | WOAH! Do you think government can survive on THIS? No. We need less but this goes TOO FAR. And proposing a tax on non-luxury goods? That right there is "five cents to the dollar" in layman's terms! You're taxing in the wrong places, and "untaxing "in the wrong places too. |
| Date | 14:30:40, May 30, 2007 CET | From |  Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Income Tax Elimination Proposal of September 2411 |
| Message | You propose a regressive taxation system. This would be horribly unfair. |
| Date | 15:37:48, May 30, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Income Tax Elimination Proposal of September 2411 |
| Message | These objections fly in the face of genuine conservatism. Not a surpise. The MLP appear to be the only party advocating less government, more freedom, and more fiscal responsibility in government. While we respect the CP, we do not want to be this nation's moral police. And FCP, unlike your party, we don't want to be social engineers. The people want conservatism in Aloria; they're votes in the next election will show their convictions. |
| Date | 18:30:21, May 30, 2007 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Income Tax Elimination Proposal of September 2411 |
| Message | You're confusing the economics meaning of progressive with the politics one, MLP. Please don't get involved in issues like this when your party clearly has no idea what it is talking about. |
| Date | 01:27:30, May 31, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Income Tax Elimination Proposal of September 2411 |
| Message | You can't separate the two. Otherwise you wouldn't be working WITHIN the confines of government only the markets. Economics and politics don't divorce in the legislative chamber (or your executive one for that matter). |
| Date | 16:17:29, May 31, 2007 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Income Tax Elimination Proposal of September 2411 |
| Message | What on earth are you talking about? The two definitions have nothing in common whatsoever. It's very easy to separate them. As we say, please either improve your economics advisors or just don't comment on such matters. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 177 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 423 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else." - Governor Jesse Ventura |