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Bill: Cobura needs a balanced budget
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nacia Repuvlican partio de Kobura
Status[?]: passed
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 2635
Description[?]:
The current government agree's that we need a balanced budget. After we balance the Coburan budget we can revist these taxe's. Low income citizen's will get a tax break and they can afford a change in this policy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 28
Current: 25
Proposed: 30
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 15
Proposed: 1
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:59:13, September 10, 2008 CET | From |  Coburan Justice Party | To | Debating the Cobura needs a balanced budget |
| Message | Why do we keep bringing back sales tax on essential goods, they hit the poor. |
| Date | 22:31:29, September 10, 2008 CET | From |  Nacia Repuvlican partio de Kobura | To | Debating the Cobura needs a balanced budget |
| Message | Well to be honest all taxes in one way or another make it back to the consumer. The Corporations pass the tax on to the cusomers also. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 355 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 145 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Periodically, it is a good idea to go through your nation's Treaties and arrange to withdraw from any that are unwanted. |
| Random quote: "You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad, in fact, to do anything it wants." - Harry Browne |