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Bill: Tax the Rich Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Party of Beluzia and Bailon
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: April 2493
Description[?]:
| Profit is a form of finance capital, which is a form of dead labor. We must reclaim the lost labor and funnel it into the workers' state. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 10
Current: 10
Proposed: 100
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:00:37, November 27, 2007 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Tax the Rich Act |
| Message | The National Conservative Party cannot support this bill - how can taxing corporations 100% good for the economy and good for the people of this great nation? We need corporations to generate jobs - I would hope those parties with power will reject this motion as it is a step backwards in the development of our great nation. |
| Date | 03:03:17, November 27, 2007 CET | From | Constitutional Monarchy Party | To | Debating the Tax the Rich Act |
| Message | This is ridiculas even by your standards! 100% !!!! PAH! utter lunatic, the economy would be on its knees! |
| Date | 16:59:03, November 27, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Tax the Rich Act |
| Message | Why would corporations exist if all their profits were seized by the state? This "tax" amounts to a ban on private enterprise altogether. |
| Date | 19:26:39, November 27, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Tax the Rich Act |
| Message | exactly, that is the idea, methinks. |
| Date | 03:16:42, November 29, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Beluzia and Bailon | To | Debating the Tax the Rich Act |
| Message | The capitalists can still pay themselves whatever the workers deem is fair. They can still make $1,000,000,000 annually, and this bill does not do anything to that. This bill merely says that any money not put towards paying labor or paying for materials is to be given to the government. This is with the assumption that this money will be used by the government to plan economic growth. Profit is dead labor, and should be put back into the economy for the benefit of the workers. |
| Date | 09:20:54, November 29, 2007 CET | From | Constitutional Monarchy Party | To | Debating the Tax the Rich Act |
| Message | "One of the most remarkable, yet stupid comments I have heard in all my time in Parliament." -Captain Hector Barbossa |
| Date | 17:08:15, November 29, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Tax the Rich Act |
| Message | According to the income tax data, no one in Beluzia makes much more than 50,000 BEL per annum. Who are you talking about? |
| Date | 19:43:07, November 29, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Tax the Rich Act |
| Message | Communists often smoke the big pipe of dreams before waxing eloquent regarding financial matters. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 275 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 342 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 104 |
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