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Bill: Religious Freedoms Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rutanian Democratic Forum
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: March 2620
Description[?]:
| Taxation of religious communities and treating them as companies is clearly a violation of religious freedoms in our "Bastion of liberty". |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Current: All religious income, despite the use, is taxed.
Proposed: No religions are taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:58:55, August 08, 2008 CET | From | Humanist Alliance | To | Debating the Religious Freedoms Act |
| Message | What exactly is it that makes religion above the law? |
| Date | 20:53:11, August 08, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Religious Freedoms Act |
| Message | There is no religion above the law, but treating religious communities like companies is absurd. If they are companies, whatdo they "make" or "sell"? Eternal salvation? |
| Date | 06:02:59, August 09, 2008 CET | From | New Liberal Party | To | Debating the Religious Freedoms Act |
| Message | They sell faith. A commodity valued to some more than others. I wouldn't give money to the church, but I know plenty of people that would. They do provide a service, and if they do in any way make a profit, they can pay tax. It won't matter anyway, they'll rort the system so everything will be a donation. |
| Date | 11:52:35, August 09, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Religious Freedoms Act |
| Message | "Faith, again, is not a service and not a product. RDF is against this ultramaterialist view of the world, where everything is seen as a product. Soon, you will be taxing marriages, because married people give each other love...and love is a product, is it? That's absurd." |
| Date | 14:25:28, August 09, 2008 CET | From | Imperium Party | To | Debating the Religious Freedoms Act |
| Message | We support, religions are not companies, they do not sell faith, they offer services to help people who are lost or feel that they have no meaning. Percival van Rustenburg Imperium Party Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 140 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 380 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 79 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past." - Kane; Command and Conquer: Red Alert |