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Bill: Tax Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kommunisticheskiy Komitet Rabochih
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: May 2594
Description[?]:
| Tax the rich, not the poor! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 20
Current: 5
Proposed: 0
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 30
Current: 10
Proposed: 50
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:44:57, June 19, 2008 CET | From |  Family and Tradition Party (disbanded) | To | Debating the Tax Reform |
| Message | "Tax the rich, not the poor!" - this is fairly typical. Indirect wealth-redistribution and a bias against the rich is proposed by the Socialdemokraticheskaya Partiya as if these things are necessarily 'good'. We reject the concept of wealth-redistribution outright. And we completely reject the entire socialist notion that one should pay more if they have the ability to pay more - this falls into the category of that wonderful abstract little philisophical superstition, 'equality'. Why is equality a good thing? Why should we blindly strive for it? Why should we strive to equalize the gap between those who earn alot of money because they are successful, and those who are poor? Why is this an inherantly good thing, and where did this completely abstract idea come from? Any legislation appealling to any notion of equality will never fly with us, because, quite simply, we reject the entire notion of equality as a good thing - it is completely unnatural, it is completely abstract, and it is also economically damaging in practical terms. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 231 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 324 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: It is forbidden to impersonate a player or Moderator. |
| Random quote: “Where would the weapons and equipment come from once you've banned the defence industry? Will we be defended by all your hippy people hurling potatoes and cabbages?” - Margaret Woodhall, former Dranian politician |