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Bill: No Sales Tax on Basic Necessities
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kundrati Revolutionary Movement
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: July 2104
Description[?]:
| A sales tax on essential items is nothing but a regressive tax on the poor and should be abolished. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 12
Current: 6
Proposed: 0
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:58:27, August 30, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the No Sales Tax on Basic Necessities |
| Message | yet you are against nationaliztion of certain key industries like energy, somthing that would help the poor. We would be in favor of lowering the tax, but not in eliminating it all together. |
| Date | 06:55:47, August 30, 2005 CET | From | Capitalist Freedom Party | To | Debating the No Sales Tax on Basic Necessities |
| Message | IMO, I can go for this.. or even something lower, like NS said. |
| Date | 09:59:19, August 30, 2005 CET | From | Rational Future | To | Debating the No Sales Tax on Basic Necessities |
| Message | We concur with this. Sales tax disproportionately targets the poor rather than the rich in society. |
| Date | 02:58:27, August 31, 2005 CET | From | Party of Evil | To | Debating the No Sales Tax on Basic Necessities |
| Message | We agree with what NS said. |
| Date | 03:12:30, August 31, 2005 CET | From | Free Market Party | To | Debating the No Sales Tax on Basic Necessities |
| Message | We will suppor this. |
| Date | 09:06:18, August 31, 2005 CET | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the No Sales Tax on Basic Necessities |
| Message | NS - we are not convinced that nationalizing energy would in fact be best for most people. We prefer decentralized energy production, while nationalizing tends to move the other way. As to the matter at hand, what is the point of taxing the sale of basic necessities except to place additional financial burdens on those with the least disposable income. If we must have a sales tax, let it fall on luxuries, not basic food and clothing,. |
| Date | 09:11:17, August 31, 2005 CET | From | Rational Future | To | Debating the No Sales Tax on Basic Necessities |
| Message | You could always have abstained. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 266 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." - Napoleon Bonaparte |