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Bill: Taxation (Essentials Tax) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union Party
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: March 2533
Description[?]:
| An act to set a tax on essential items. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 4
Proposed: 1
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:55:02, February 14, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Taxation (Essentials Tax) Act |
| Message | It is not clear just how much we money we can get by a tax on essential items. We don't propose to keep it, but this is just for informational purposes. Once this passes, we'll submit a bill to abolish it again. It is important we look at all our options in taxation. |
| Date | 02:56:52, February 15, 2008 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Taxation (Essentials Tax) Act |
| Message | oppose the goal is to shrink gov, not to tax food propose other bills to shrink the budget, then after that passes to shrink tax revenues |
| Date | 03:01:33, February 15, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Taxation (Essentials Tax) Act |
| Message | You obviously don't take in anything anyone else says. The purpose of this bill is to see how much tax we would bring in if we did enact this form of consumption tax, since there is no viable other way to do it. It is an exercise in information gathering. Sticking your head in the sand and being blind to new ideas is not a good policy. |
| Date | 14:24:05, February 15, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Taxation (Essentials Tax) Act |
| Message | NO!!! This is dumb-ass stupid. |
| Date | 12:07:48, February 16, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Taxation (Essentials Tax) Act |
| Message | We'ld even support a 2% or a 5% sales tax rate for essential goods, with a maximum of 10% |
| Date | 14:17:05, February 16, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Taxation (Essentials Tax) Act |
| Message | Well food prices will be on the rise now. Congratulations. |
| Date | 00:36:17, February 17, 2008 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Taxation (Essentials Tax) Act |
| Message | wow, Smokey party is gone and Citizens' Power has replaced them |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 303 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 197 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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