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Bill: Separation of Church and State
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian Democrats
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 2496
Description[?]:
| The LVP proposes a separation of church and state. (Side Note: The reason a religion must be recognized is to keep dishonest weasels from creating a psuedo-religion and claiming tax free status. "The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster hereby proclaims tax free status!") |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Current: All religious income, despite the use, is taxed.
Proposed: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:13:56, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Minimalist Party | To | Debating the Separation of Church and State |
| Message | If you really want to separate church and state, don't give state the power to decide which religions are "recognized" |
| Date | 08:52:01, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Freedom Party -- KEG SLAM | To | Debating the Separation of Church and State |
| Message | Ditto the Minimalist party And are you a returning player? I don't remember hearing the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for a while. |
| Date | 01:27:02, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Maverick Party | To | Debating the Separation of Church and State |
| Message | All hail his meatball like holyness. noodle des noodle O. In nomina Sauce! It SO shouldent be taxed! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 248 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 393 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 109 |
| Random fact: Treaties will be eligible for deletion if they are more than 50 in-game years old and have no currently ratified members. |
| Random quote: "When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'" - Martin Luther King Jr. |