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Bill: Tax Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Cildania for Matty 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: October 2469
Description[?]:
| We still have a budget deficit. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 3
Current: 2
Proposed: 50
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 15
Current: 7
Proposed: 50
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:34:56, October 12, 2007 CET | From |  Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Tax Reform |
| Message | Sociopath. That is the only word which can describe a leader who seeks to destroy the economy in order to fund departments which have no authorized policies on which to spend those funds. A third of the budget leading to the so-called deficit is dedicated to health and social services, when our government provides no social services, and only a small degree of the nation's healthcare. Given that the sociopath Matty controls the office of finance, the sensible way to adjust for the deficit is to reduce spending to a level commensurate with what is actually necessary to fund programs which currently exist, and then *reduce* taxes to match that level. |
| Date | 01:33:17, October 12, 2007 CET | From | The Cildania for Matty Party | To | Debating the Tax Reform |
| Message | We don't need authorization in order to spend money. |
| Date | 14:04:35, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Peoples Revolutionary Front | To | Debating the Tax Reform |
| Message | No to proposal Number 2. It effects the Workers more then anybody. |
| Date | 14:24:53, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Marxist-Leninist Happiness Front | To | Debating the Tax Reform |
| Message | If this passed we'll propose lowering #2 to 0. |
| Date | 16:33:52, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Tax Reform |
| Message | The point, dingbat, is that given the current policy set, most of the departments you are funding can't spend money on anything related to the actual purpose of the department, They can pay salaries for people in the department, maybe have some wild office parties, but they can't actually accomplish anything with the money. For example, a nation that has no pensions, no guaranteed minimum income, no child benefit, and a small amount of healthcare assistance only for low income patients, does not need 300 billion dollars of funding. Most of those funds will just sit there. |
| Date | 20:55:51, October 12, 2007 CET | From | The Cildania for Matty Party | To | Debating the Tax Reform |
| Message | Incorrect, ICE. Cildania does in fact have pensions, guaranteed minmum incomes, child benefits, publicly funded healthcare, etc. What Cildania does not have is LAWS authorizing those things. Laws are not necessary for Cildania to have those things. |
| Date | 02:07:30, October 13, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Tax Reform |
| Message | Actually they are. Unless you are saying that Cildania is now subject to an illegal dictatorship in which your party does whatever it wishes, in flagrant disregard of the law. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 32 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 35 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 8 |
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