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Bill: Sin Tax!
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia
Status[?]: passed
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: November 2485
Description[?]:
Hamburgers, Petrol, Tobacco...
You can have whatever Luxuries you want, but you have to PAY Outrageous Taxes!!!
(unless of course you buy it on the blackmarket from the Zogist mafia at cut-throat pirate rates...) |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:58:59, November 12, 2007 CET |
From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Sin Tax! | | Message | Why is the RST set to soar if Finance is raising income tax AND cutting the budget?? The Government is attempting to swindle its people! |
| Date | 16:19:40, November 13, 2007 CET |
From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Sin Tax! | | Message | The real commies are obviously the PPP - this bill proves it. |
| Date | 17:05:47, November 14, 2007 CET |
From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Sin Tax! | | Message | This is just stupid economic policy, plain and simple.
ooc: Alas, if only the game actually had a working economic engine - we would see the real effect of heavy, regressive taxation and massive budget surpluses. |
| Date | 17:07:27, November 15, 2007 CET |
From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Sin Tax! | | Message | This is probably the largest, ongoing redistribution of wealth in the country's recent history, and the PPP proposes it each time the Liberals lower taxes. |
| Date | 21:02:15, November 15, 2007 CET |
From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Sin Tax! | | Message | And yet look at the level of support! You criticized our demands for increased spending, but now we have found a way to pay for it... |
| Date | 21:23:00, November 15, 2007 CET |
From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Sin Tax! | | Message | Support from left-wing spendocrats does not justify an economically-crippling taxation strategy. 150 million Beluzians can still be wrong... |
| Date | 21:38:49, November 15, 2007 CET |
From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Sin Tax! | | Message | how does a fat tax on luxuries hurt anything? People don't need them, and if they want them cheap they can buy them on the black market! |
| Date | 18:52:32, November 16, 2007 CET |
From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Sin Tax! | | Message | It hurts the manufacturing industries, transport companies, and all those who earn their livings selling these 'luxury products.' Plus, without a firm definition of what qualifies, it practically begs for corrupt officials and merchants to collect the tax and not pay it into the treasury. |
| Date | 19:20:09, November 16, 2007 CET |
From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Sin Tax! | | Message | exactly, the rewarding of cronies and mafia members! And the People can buy or sell whatever they want, at whatever price they are willing to risk getting involved with! It's a win for everybody all around. |
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| Vote |
Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 573 |
| no | Total Seats: 105 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 72 |
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