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Bill: Income Tax, December 2483

Details

Submitted by[?]: Computational Intellect Project

Status[?]: passed

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: August 2484

Description[?]:

This would take our grotesque enormous budget of almost 90 billion BAR, and bring it down to only about 1.5 billion BAR.

Surplus is theft, as money that does not go back to the people in some way is money merely taken and kept, much as a thief does. We are not thieves. This is not a kleptocracy. So, let's take what we need, and slightly a little more to create a fund to be used for emergencies (that fund is already enormous; we've had a budget since the founding of this nation).

There is no ethical explanation for a 90 billion BAR surplus..

Not only is it unethical for a 90 billion BAR surplus, but to create that surplus, we are taking the majority of the money from the lower class; the people that need it the most. We are thinking of the children in this case; as we are Social Darwinists, we believe that the adults of the lower class are there because they deserve it; or at least in our envisioned utopia, that is how it would be, and we are very close to that utopia, inching ever closer each year. However, it is in no way the fault of the children of the lower class parents that their parents are poor, it is their parents' fault, and there is no way the children should have to suffer for their parents' mistakes.

With this immense income tax on the poor, the children in the lower class really don't have the proper parental care they need because both parents are working. In fact, one parent is working year-round, all day long, just to pay taxes, and the other is working year-round, all day long, just to make end's meet and support their kids. Why don't we give these kids a break and give them a parent?

The tax on the middle class is also insane. So, we drop it from 5 to 1 percent. They are, arguably, the hardest working of all the classes, so they shouldn't have to pay more for working hard; they already did their work.

And, for the purpose of compromise (as there are parties in this legislature expressly representing the rich), we have decided to drop the upper bracket entirely. Not only have we done this for compromise, but the upper bracket really didn't generate much money anyway, so it would sort of be theft to take money from them we don't need. So, just like the middle class, they pay a 1 percent income tax. This seems like a very fair deal.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date21:20:41, November 10, 2007 CET
FromComputational Intellect Project
ToDebating the Income Tax, December 2483
MessageWhat does the UPCP have against lower taxes if the current taxes yield unnecessary surplus?

Do they sadistically enjoy the starvation of parentally neglected lower class children? Seeing how little they make and yet the government taxes them anyway, it's no wonder why the starving lower class children are statistically such delinquents!

Do they enjoy ripping the money away from the hardest working and most intellectual; the middle-class?

And yet they don't even favor lowering taxes in the class they represent, the rich!

Date09:37:39, November 11, 2007 CET
FromComputational Intellect Project
ToDebating the Income Tax, December 2483
MessageSeeing how the eventually voted, we detract the above statement.

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
   

Total Seats: 261

no
 

Total Seats: 37

abstain
    

Total Seats: 106


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