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Bill: Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Liberal Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2550
Description[?]:
This proposed bill has as its goal to amend the budget and change the tax rates. The following amendment shall be added to the budget: 1) To increase infrastructure and transport budget to 6,700,000,000 LOD. 2) To increase science and technology budget to 7,100,000,000 LOD. 3) To decrease defense budget to 74,800,000,000 LOD. The following tax rates changes shall be applied: 1) Increase corporation tax by 1%, at a rate of 0.1% each trimester, unti it reaches the target of 11%. 2) Increase tax rate of >3000 LOD to 28%, at a rate of 0.5% each year, until the target rate is reached. 3) Decrease the tax rate of >600 LOD to 8%, at a rate of 1% each year, until the target rate is reached. The original text of this act shall not be changed or altered. All amendments added to this act shall not be removed and cannot be changed. This Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act shall become effective one year after its final passage and can only be suspended or repealed by another law. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 15:47:51, March 21, 2008 CET | From | Lodamun Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | We oppose every change exept decreasin the tax rate of the >600 LOD bracket. We support tax cuts for everyone, and think we should have a flat tax, so everyone payed the same amount of % of what they make in a income |
Date | 15:59:45, March 21, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | We agree with the LLP |
Date | 05:27:47, March 22, 2008 CET | From | The Liberal Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | I understand your position and the fact that we have a surplus but by the way I see things and calculating the numbers I can see that the surplus will slowly decrease. With an increase in the budget, which I am pretty sure you agree it will increase at some point, you have to make up for the loss of revenue. If you decrease the tax rate of one group, you have to increase the rate of another. I understand you may not want to decrease the defense budget, that's ok with me but the corporation tax should be increased, besides it will increase at a very reasonable rate and very slowly. Remember wars take a toll on the economy. Please reconsider your position. Some times tough decisions must be made in order to keep the country stabalized. |
Date | 18:23:25, March 22, 2008 CET | From | The Liberal Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | Accoring to the budget approved just a few moths ago, we DO NOT have a surplus anymore, we must increase taxes. |
Date | 19:20:16, March 22, 2008 CET | From | Lodamun Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | Currently our budget surplus is 1.8 billion LOD, so we dont need a tax increase. Also after the war I will propose lowering the military budget back to prewar levels, which means we will get a 45 billion LOD surplus and which means we can remove the unessecary corporation tax and lower the tax for everyone, both rich middle class and poor |
Date | 19:46:42, March 22, 2008 CET | From | The Liberal Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | Do you consider 1.8 billion LOD a big surplus? What if we have an emergency? Do you know how long is the war going to last? The fact is that we don't know. Maybe the defense budget is too low, but the increase in the other department's budget is necessary. We need better science and better transportation. If you don't agree with the defense budget we can propose a revision of the budget. Let's try to work this out. |
Date | 20:09:29, March 22, 2008 CET | From | Lodamun Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | I dident say I dident agreed with the defense budget, I was the one who proposed it. What I said was that after the war we can reduce the budget and our government spending. As for science and transportation the LLP think we should privatise alot of it, especially science so it will become more independent of our government and its shifting political focus |
Date | 20:20:58, March 22, 2008 CET | From | The Liberal Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | The LP agrees with you on the science and transportation part. Maybe we can create a bill in the future to deal with that. The main part of this bill is the tax rates. That is the part we should work out. |
Date | 21:09:29, March 22, 2008 CET | From | Lodamun Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | well the LLP has always been for low taxes, let our citizens keep most of what they earn themself. What we would like to see is a flat tax rate being as low as possible but enough so that we keep a 4-5 billion LOD budget surplus incase of emergencies. Also remember the rich and upper middle class are being taxed through the luxury tax too (the poor dont buy luxury) so a flat income tax in addition to the luxury tax would be fair |
Date | 22:19:20, March 22, 2008 CET | From | The Liberal Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | I think a flat tax rate is not beneficial for the country's economy. If, for example, we lower the taxes to 9%, we are going to lose a lot of revenue from the upper-class. If we increase the taxes to 13%, the lower class will suffer. So, it is a good idea, but impossible to accomplish. The luxury tax will never make up for that loss of revenue. |
Date | 00:14:25, March 23, 2008 CET | From | Lodamun Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | If we lower the defense budget after the war and dont increase any of the other budget posts we can afford lowering the taxes for everyone |
Date | 00:48:53, March 23, 2008 CET | From | The Liberal Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | what I want to know is why are you opposing to increase taxes on corporations and middle-upper class? |
Date | 01:50:16, March 23, 2008 CET | From | Lodamun Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | Because the LLP have always wanted to keep taxes as low as possible. We dont like corporation tax becouse we belive it slows down corporations growth, and we would oppose taxes for the poor equally much as taxes on the middle and upper class. We belive the working people of our nation should be able to keep as much of there hard earned money as possible for themself |
Date | 06:52:06, March 27, 2008 CET | From | Pariah Idealism | To | Debating the Emergency Budget Amendment and Tax Rate Act |
Message | Checked -approved |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||
yes | Total Seats: 76 | |||
no | Total Seats: 66 | |||
abstain | Total Seats: 8 |
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