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Bill: Secularisation of 2468 I
Details
Submitted by[?]: Alorian Free Democrats
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: July 2468
Description[?]:
| Churches must remain non-profit organizations at all times. This bill introduces a small amount of oversight to our religious institutions. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: No religions are taxed.
Current: No religions are taxed.
Proposed: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:58:20, October 09, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Secularisation of 2468 I |
| Message | We don't really have a corporate tax in Aloria right now. If we did, I would agree with this proposal. Not saying I would vote for it. But I would agree with it. |
| Date | 14:07:56, October 09, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Secularisation of 2468 I |
| Message | In America right now the megachurches are exploiting their tax exempt status to sell duty free consumer goods to their congregations. It's obnoxious, sleazy, and hypocritical. "And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;"--Mark 11:15 "Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? But ye have made it a den of thieves."--Mark 11:17 |
| Date | 02:15:50, October 10, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Secularisation of 2468 I |
| Message | Well we aren't here to legislate morality, we're here to run a country based on liberty. IF a church wants to be corrupt, that's fine. We are not here to stop people from being your definition of immoral, we are here to make sure that each person doesn't agress against another's property. life, and liberty, and to collect a small amount of taxes to keep us running. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 170 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 500 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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