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Bill: Religious Taxation Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Socialist Alliance
Status[?]: defeated
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 2571
Description[?]:
| Why shouldn't religions be taxed? |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: No religions are taxed.
Current: No religions are taxed.
Proposed: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:32:03, May 03, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Religious Taxation Bill |
| Message | The key to understanding why this bill is good policy is the word "PROFIT." Why are Bogist Temples operating at a *profit?* |
| Date | 22:32:19, May 03, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Religious Taxation Bill |
| Message | When churches act like businesses, they should be treated like businesses. |
| Date | 00:01:33, May 04, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Religious Taxation Bill |
| Message | Might also be worth noting that the law is "religions are treated as companies." Right now the corporate tax is 0%--meaning this bill wouldn't impose any taxes on churches. But if we imposed a corporate tax, then churches that operated at a profit would be taxed accordingly. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 282 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 307 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 161 |
| Random fact: Particracy allows you to establish an unelected head of state like a monarch or a president-for-life, but doing this is a bit of a process. First elect a candidate with the name "." to the Head of State position. Then change your law on the "Structure of the executive branch" to "The head of state is hereditary and symbolic; the head of government chairs the cabinet" and change the "formal title of the head of state" to how you want the new head of state's title and name to appear (eg. King Percy XVI). |
| Random quote: "John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?" - Emma Goldman |