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Bill: Funding For Social Programs
Details
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: September 2111
Description[?]:
| It has to come from somewhere. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 0
Current: 30
Proposed: 5
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 10
Current: 25
Proposed: 30
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:12:19, September 10, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Funding For Social Programs |
| Message | Our corporate tax rates are still lower or equal to all but one Terran nation, Keymon. |
| Date | 18:23:55, September 10, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Funding For Social Programs |
| Message | 0 is the lowest, we have the lowest. There are many benefits related to having the lowest. |
| Date | 18:56:30, September 10, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Funding For Social Programs |
| Message | There are also many benefits related to having a very low tax rate but decent social services like free healthcare, so corporations don't have to pay expensive healthcare costs to attract workers. |
| Date | 06:19:45, September 15, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Funding For Social Programs |
| Message | I would like to note as well, that we are currently running a surplus, this tax increase is unnecessary |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 136 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 112 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 24 |
| Random fact: It is forbidden to impersonate a player or Moderator. |
| Random quote: "What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't." - Ed Fallon |