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Bill: Robin Hood Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dobré Podnikatelia
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: May 2498
Description[?]:
| Stealing from the Rich and giving to the Poor. |
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 |
| > 1 DTE | 10% | 28,643,000,000 DTE |
| > 5,000 DTE | 20% | 57,297,000,000 DTE |
| > 10,000 DTE | 22% | 63,027,000,000 DTE |
| > 15,000 DTE | 23% | 65,892,000,000 DTE |
| > 20,000 DTE | 25% | 812,698,000,000 DTE |
| > 100,000 DTE | 30% | 296,528,000,000 DTE | Total | 1,324,085,000,000 DTE |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:54:10, December 06, 2007 CET | From | VonkajÅ¡Ãci | To | Debating the Robin Hood Bill |
| Message | We'd prefer it to be the other way around. |
| Date | 10:55:59, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Libetarian Communist Union | To | Debating the Robin Hood Bill |
| Message | Tax the rich and feed the poor, 'til there are rich no more. Support. |
| Date | 11:32:24, December 06, 2007 CET | From | VonkajÅ¡Ãci | To | Debating the Robin Hood Bill |
| Message | Why don't the members of your party lead by example and give your money to the poor? |
| Date | 13:56:18, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Libetarian Communist Union | To | Debating the Robin Hood Bill |
| Message | Giving isn't communism, equally distributing is. |
| Date | 16:47:00, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Dobré Podnikatelia | To | Debating the Robin Hood Bill |
| Message | As for us, we prefer private organizations so that our donated money will go directly to those in need, not to some big company. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 78 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 4 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 18 |
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| Random quote: "Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation." - Vladimir Lenin |