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Bill: Tax relief
Details
Submitted by[?]: Restoration Party
Status[?]: passed
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: August 2095
Description[?]:
| VAT = regressive, as poor people spend 99% of income on goods, where as the rich spend a negligible amount. even for luxury goods, when the working man wants to treat his wife to a diamond with the monarch crest than he shouldn't have to pay such a large mark up! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 10
Current: 10
Proposed: 0
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 10
Current: 30
Proposed: 2
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:46:39, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Restoration Party | To | Debating the Tax relief |
| Message | Finally a bill to reunite the liberarian majority of Valruzia! UNITE, all we have to lose are our chains!! |
| Date | 13:23:33, August 13, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal Democrats | To | Debating the Tax relief |
| Message | I'd rather go for the status quo. |
| Date | 21:32:06, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberty Party | To | Debating the Tax relief |
| Message | Yes. I'm tired of having to go to Deleware to escape sales tax |
| Date | 21:53:20, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Restoration Party | To | Debating the Tax relief |
| Message | OOC: SLP...where are you from? PA? MD? |
| Date | 23:22:19, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party of Valruzia | To | Debating the Tax relief |
| Message | Yes... |
| Date | 05:05:07, August 14, 2005 CET | From | Alliance for Natural Law | To | Debating the Tax relief |
| Message | Considering the bizarre and senseless definition of luxury goods here, we must vote yes. Were luxury goods defined as yachts, mink coats, and such, we might vote differently, however as is, most people have the money to buy a significant number of non-essential items, yet by no *sane* definition luxury, we must obviously vote against such a tax. As this is a *national* sales tax on such, we'd rather see it as zero. Essential items we feel, of course, should never be taxed either. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 93 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 85 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 23 |
| Random fact: Particracy is set in the fictional world of Terra, which mirrors the real world of today and yet is not quite like it. |
| Random quote: "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith |