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Bill: An Act Concerning the Ministry of the Environment
Details
Submitted by[?]: Ocean Submarine League of Progress
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: April 2648
Description[?]:
Whereas this ministry receives no funding,
This Act seeks to remedy such.
The tax levied, if passed, would go directly to the Ministry. Notice that this is a very modest amount of money and is not new spending. |
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 |
| > 167,000 MRD | 1% | 160,000,000 MRD |
Total | 160,000,000 MRD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:52:12, October 04, 2008 CET |
From | Mordusian Austrian Union | To | Debating the An Act Concerning the Ministry of the Environment | | Message | If your neighbor comes to you at gunpoint and demands a certain amount of your income, even if he uses that money for good ends, it is still robbery. Taxation is exactly that -- government, established via a monopoly on law and violence, threatens the use of said violence unless the citizen coughs up a certain amount of money.
However, this money is then sent through an enormous and inefficient government bureaucracy, therefore creating deadweight loss, so that the money being put out is far less than the money being taken in, meaning it is an overall COST to society, not benefit. The private sector, however, does not have these problems. |
| Date | 03:04:39, October 06, 2008 CET |
From | Ocean Submarine League of Progress | To | Debating the An Act Concerning the Ministry of the Environment | | Message | How can government expect to serve people if people like yourselves and those you represent do not wish to serve government? The relationship between state and citizen is quid pro quo, and ought to be supported. Otherwise, you have no business serving in government in the first place. |
| Date | 03:59:08, October 06, 2008 CET |
From | Mordusian Austrian Union | To | Debating the An Act Concerning the Ministry of the Environment | | Message | The relationship between citizen and government is NEVER quid pro quo. The government is always and forever inefficient, coercive, and brutal. The Coalition does not serve government, it serves people; it serves the people by removing those who claim to be its masters -- government. Government can ONLY exist and rule through a monopoly on violence, "justice," and operates solely through coercion. Government is inherently immoral. Even the "good" things that can come out of it come out mangled, twisted, and with too many strings attached and too many skeletons in the closet.
Statism is tyranny. |
| Date | 21:32:35, October 06, 2008 CET |
From | Party of the Wave (AU) | To | Debating the An Act Concerning the Ministry of the Environment | | Message | The Party of the Wave is surprised by the Datakja Coalition's staunch position that the government is corrupt and pointless. The Party of the Wave joined this nation in hopes of improving it and making it a better place for Mordusians to live. Yet we have arrived in this great nation to find a government uninterested in helping its citizens, and a majority leader who finds his position to be pointless. If the government is pointless, is that not the fault of those in power? If government is such a terrible institution, as the leader of this nation, should you not be doing something to fix it? |
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| Vote |
Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 65 |
| no | Total Seats: 78 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 19 |
| Random fact: Real-life organisations should not be referenced in Particracy, unless they are simple and generic (eg. "National Organisation for Women" is allowed). |
| Random quote: "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown |