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Bill: Income tax proposal of December 2610
Details
Submitted by[?]: Normand Pluralist Party
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: August 2611
Description[?]:
| The Socialists' tax proposal disastrously harmed our great nation. It increased overall taxation by more than 40%, costing Sekowans a good deal of their livelihood, and even decreasing incomes to poverty levels (some could no longer afford to purchase a baguette!) They increased taxation across ALL income levels, some massively. They created problems with taxations which made it so that those making LESS would actually be able to KEEP more because of their unfair taxation schemes (for example, under the DSP system, if you made 65k, you would take home more than someone making 70k after taxes). We propose this simple taxation scheme which is fair, less burdensome, and similar to previous taxation plans except that it adds an additional, higher tax bracket (as we now have those which fall under this higher bracket). |
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 |
| > 10,000 SEK | 9% | 14,152,000,000 SEK |
| > 20,000 SEK | 20% | 19,796,000,000 SEK |
| > 30,000 SEK | 35% | 23,427,000,000 SEK |
| > 40,000 SEK | 40% | 14,285,000,000 SEK |
| > 50,000 SEK | 45% | 12,767,000,000 SEK |
| > 60,000 SEK | 50% | 4,877,000,000 SEK |
| > 70,000 SEK | 55% | 2,456,000,000 SEK | Total | 91,760,000,000 SEK |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:32:28, July 25, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2610 |
| Message | That is the point of Progressive taxation, the rich pay more. |
| Date | 02:08:55, July 25, 2008 CET | From | Anti-Federalists of Free Sekowo | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2610 |
| Message | Hmm. Funny, I thought we believed in equality here. Wait, I forgot. DSP wants wolves to have more rights than humans. My mistake. |
| Date | 02:26:47, July 25, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2610 |
| Message | Progressive taxation leads to economic equality by having everyone within the same range of earnings. |
| Date | 07:39:09, July 25, 2008 CET | From | Anti-Federalists of Free Sekowo | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2610 |
| Message | Oh, I see. The idea is to have forced equality. Probably doesn't matter whether there are 10 kids or six, does it? Nor does the standard of living for different regions. People who work different jobs lead different lifestyles. You seem to embrace diversity in sexual orientations, why not in lifestyle otherwise? Why can't the people choose? |
| Date | 07:59:42, July 25, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2610 |
| Message | DSP, your system leads to INEQUALITY: Under your system, someone who works 40 hours a week gets LESS money to take home than someone who works 35 hours a week - it is a clear incentive to EARN LESS and GET MORE, which is about as stupid a policy economically as can be thought up. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 250 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 270 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 80 |
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| 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 |