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Bill: Working Class Tax Cuts
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance
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: May 2463
Description[?]:
| Why is it that our government is runing such a high surplus? We should take that surplus and give it back to our citizens by way of tax cuts. This will leave people with more disposable income, and help lower class families to make ends meet. The extra income will increase spending on things like investment, boosting our economy, creating employment etc. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 25
Current: 19
Proposed: 20
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:52:07, September 29, 2007 CET | From |  帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Working Class Tax Cuts |
| Message | It is at 25 for several reason. 1. 25% is far easier to figure out than 20%, since most people don't have the time to do the math in there head in there hectic lives. 2. 25% is an adequate number, and is relatively low as it is. |
| Date | 03:57:07, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance | To | Debating the Working Class Tax Cuts |
| Message | Surley allowing cheaper goods is more important than ease of calculation. This is a bill that if passed will increase the standard of living across the board in society. It is easily affordable, and its benefits far outweigh any worrys about the difference between calculating 20 and 25 percent. Such calculations will be done in theory by buisness owners, who will hapily accept these tax cuts, as it means more potential sales for them. |
| Date | 04:04:44, September 29, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Working Class Tax Cuts |
| Message | We feel that 25% is fine for luxury items, as it is not to much and not to little. |
| Date | 04:05:53, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance | To | Debating the Working Class Tax Cuts |
| Message | But surley our citizens could benefit from such tax cuts? We can certainly afford them. |
| Date | 04:39:42, September 29, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Working Class Tax Cuts |
| Message | Our citizens are, at the very least low middle-class, it's not like a 25% tax on luxury items is going to affect them that much. |
| Date | 09:27:37, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Plato's Republican Party | To | Debating the Working Class Tax Cuts |
| Message | The PRP feel that cutting taxes on luxury items is a poor way to give surplus money back to Sekowans. Luxury items are taxed because they are just that, a luxury. Consider how much the Government provides to many citizens, free of charge. They are provided free health care, a free education, free power, water, heat, stipends for low income families and a high minimum wage. If running a surplus is this much of a concern then the Finance Minister should propose a new budget with more money put towards health care and social services. As we have said before, perhaps only the rich will be able to afford gold-plated toilets, but everyone can afford one with a bum warmer. Bum warmers for all! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 41 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 436 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 122 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow role-play that seems to belong to the world of fantasy, science fiction and futuristic speculation. |
| Random quote: "I have no faith in political arithmetic." - Adam Smith |