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Bill: Income tax proposal of February 2472
Details
Submitted by[?]: CSA Pax et Socialism
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes to change income taxes. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2472
Description[?]:
| The CSA Pax et Socialism propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Independent Federation of Dolgaria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_taxes_in_Canada#Personal_federal_marginal_tax_rates 844,044,151,677 Old Income Tax Revenue 5,973,745,000,000 New Income Tax Revenue Increased 7.078 times, yet is less for those with lower incomes to pay. |
Proposals
Article 1
We propose to alter income tax brackets to the following setup. Information about the current income tax system can be found here.
| Bracket | Tax | Estimated Revenue |
| > 8,929 DLD | 15% | 241,152,000,000 DLD |
| > 37,178 DLD | 22% | 465,498,000,000 DLD |
| > 74,357 DLD | 26% | 688,499,000,000 DLD |
| > 120,887 DLD | 29% | 2,995,861,000,000 DLD | Total | 4,391,010,000,000 DLD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:33:10, October 18, 2007 CET | From | Mixed Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | Well it's in Canada, but that's just okay. Good! |
| Date | 14:49:22, October 18, 2007 CET | From | Cosa Nostra | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | The question remains: why? The government does not need that money, we have a surplus as it is, so why make the people pay more taxes? Even if the lower incomes pay less, they still would have to pay 11% more than they do now! |
| Date | 21:27:54, October 18, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | Economic equality. |
| Date | 21:29:58, October 18, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | And less people have to pay this way. People under 8,929 DFH don't pay.... they don't pay 11% more, but in actuality, 5 more K-income levels of "poor" DON'T HAVE TO PAY AT ALL. So their taxes are reduced by 100%. |
| Date | 09:27:10, October 19, 2007 CET | From | Cosa Nostra | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | Yeah, well, whatever... All I see is that we take more money for the people to stash away in the treasury. I would understand it better if there were more expenses on, let's say, the welfare and health department? |
| Date | 17:49:57, October 19, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | that's what I'm doing, have you not noticed? How did this not get passed? I got a majority vote. |
| Date | 22:10:14, October 19, 2007 CET | From | Cosa Nostra | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | Maybe some of my men bribed or blackmailed a few cabinet members. Sorry about that, they're not yet quite used to this political way of doing business. |
| Date | 23:21:10, October 19, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | Will you vote for it if I propose it again? It needs 277 seats. |
| Date | 02:55:38, October 20, 2007 CET | From | Cosa Nostra | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | Can't do that, man, it's too outrageous. |
| Date | 19:48:35, October 20, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | Solving poverty is outrageous to you? |
| Date | 20:03:17, October 21, 2007 CET | From | Cosa Nostra | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2472 |
| Message | Solving poverty by taking the earnestly owned money from the hard working Dolgarian? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 237 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 236 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 82 |
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