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Bill: Sales tax on essential goods
Details
Submitted by[?]: bran1322 Party
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: March 2469
Description[?]:
| While politically popular, a tax break for essential goods is generally not a good idea. The intent of the sales tax on these goods I believe is to help the poor. Yet, everyone needs to purchase these items so everyone contributes to the revenue gained from this tax including visitors. The revenues lost generally go to government programs which on average skew to helping the poor. It would be more efficient and helpful to the poor, to have a tax paid for by everyone and then spend the money on programs which will all go to helping the poor. Yet, instead of raising it from 0 to 4 for parity, I would rather see it go up slowly from 0 to 1 because I am not sure how supportive other nations are of raising taxes in the first place. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 19
Proposed: 1
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:32:14, October 09, 2007 CET | From | Terra Socialism Party | To | Debating the Sales tax on essential goods |
| Message | no way |
| Date | 11:48:24, October 10, 2007 CET | From | NPPE | To | Debating the Sales tax on essential goods |
| Message | 1% tax is acceptable, not much for the common man, but a relatively large addition to the national budget |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 132 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 168 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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