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Bill: Flat Rate Tax
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jewish Mothers' Union
Status[?]: defeated
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: February 2562
Description[?]:
| We propose a simple and fair flat rate tax system in order to increase revenues to fund increases in vital areas including health & education. Melanie Koffenbaum (Leader of the JMU) |
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 |
| > 80,000 BEI | 50% | 294,377,000,000 BEI | Total | 294,377,000,000 BEI |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:06:55, April 15, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the Flat Rate Tax |
| Message | "We propose simple budget cuts and the elimination of the income tax altogether to progress further towards a free market economy, and to cease penalizing people for making considerably more money than the rest of the populace. People should be encouraged to work harder, work more, start businesses if they are dissatisfied with their work place, and make as much money as possible. Selfish goals, yes, but it will improve the economy and the standard of living more than redistribution of wealth ever could. There are selfish acts, unselfish acts, and selfless acts. Selflessness is a figment of the imagination, as selflessness would imply no desire, and no actions are performed without a desire of some sort as a motive. Unselfish acts - helping others - are motivated by selfishness, just as working harder to make more money is. If there is a man on the railroad tracks about to die, a complete stranger to you, letting him die would be selfish. But so would pushing him off to give your own life, because you would rather die than live the rest of your life with the guilt of knowing that you could've done something but didn't. Both acts are selfish; just one is unselfish at the same time. Capitalistic selfishness, as it benefits society as a whole, is the most noble and unselfish desire imaginable. Entrepreneurship is of higher moral standard then even charity. Higher income taxes only penalizes such desire and holds society back from progression." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 12 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 345 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 43 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. " -Vanya Cohen |