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Bill: Income tax proposal of February 2617
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Liberal 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: October 2617
Description[?]:
| 17 billion in revenue is going to be raised. All of it is going to be used for the Education Ministry plus a Defense cut. |
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 |
| > 600 LOD | 3% | 1,033,000,000 LOD |
| > 1,200 LOD | 9% | 8,906,000,000 LOD |
| > 3,000 LOD | 19% | 12,985,000,000 LOD |
| > 5,000 LOD | 27% | 6,510,000,000 LOD |
| > 6,500 LOD | 28% | 2,786,000,000 LOD |
| > 7,500 LOD | 30% | 5,557,000,000 LOD | Total | 37,777,000,000 LOD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:22:52, August 06, 2008 CET | From | Lodamun Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2617 |
| Message | If you are gonna raise taxes, atleast do it in a fair by increasing it for everyone |
| Date | 21:17:29, August 06, 2008 CET | From | The Liberal Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2617 |
| Message | Why the poor need to pay more? They already make a substantial less amount and you want to take away more money fom them. |
| Date | 22:21:52, August 06, 2008 CET | From | Lodamun Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2617 |
| Message | if this passes the highest taxed will pay 1000% (10 times as much)more of there income than the poorest. There is nothing fair about that |
| Date | 23:32:24, August 06, 2008 CET | From | Republican Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2617 |
| Message | Well, either way, we need revenue in order to finance our new educational policy. Or does not the LLP care about what the Parliament passes? |
| Date | 02:23:02, August 07, 2008 CET | From | The Liberal Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2617 |
| Message | The more you earn, the more taxes you pay, that's how it works, that's how it has always worked. Yes, they pay ten time as much but they also get to keep ten times more than the poor. It is more than fair. Your idea of a flat tax is simply inpossible to achieve. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 72 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 55 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 23 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "You don't have to explain something you never said." - Calvin Coolidge |