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Bill: The Labor Crisis Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Alorian Populist Party (DemCoa)
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: November 2724
Description[?]:
| In an economic downturn, the last ting we need are strikes and worker riots. So we need a policy of a sticks and carrots to calm things down. The sticks must come from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the carrots must come from us. What these workers want is a democratization of industry. So what this bill does is incentivize businesses to do just that. The DWC issues has often gone back and forth between mandated DWC ownership to non-intervention on the issue. This strikes a middle ground, the government encouraging but not mandating DWC ownership through subsidies and tax exemptions. For that sort of encouragement, the APP suggests (in this bill) a complete tax exemption (100%) on businesses ran by DWCs. (so thats what article 1 does, DWC ran businesses don't pay corporate taxes). On the other hand, right now we have a massive deficit. While deficits are necessary in times of recession, it still could be lowered by smart policies. So I recommend in this bill a tax hike on corporate profits, an increase of fourfold. Just to make things clear, the tax is on Corporate profits, which means first the business makes money, then the pay the wages and fees, then they pay 15% (or after this bill 60%) of what remains after that to the government. To be sure, those are high taxes, intentionally so. The objective of such taxes is twofold. 1) It slashes the deficit (eventually, when the depression is over, I have spending cuts and new income tax proposals in mind to eliminate it) 2) It further incentivizes Democratization of industry without mandating it. If you are and undemocratic business, you must pay 60% of your profits to the government, if you are democratic you don't have to pay any. So where currently, undemocratic business has a clear market advantage, this will eliminate and in fact reverse it. We hope this bill will placate the labor unrest. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 15
Current: 5
Proposed: 60
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Proposed: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:51:07, March 11, 2009 CET | From | Centre Democrats | To | Debating the The Labor Crisis Bill |
| Message | 60% tax for corp. profits is outragious! we can not agree on that! |
| Date | 19:00:15, March 11, 2009 CET | From | Alorian Populist Party (DemCoa) | To | Debating the The Labor Crisis Bill |
| Message | It only on Corps that are undemocratic. |
| Date | 20:18:51, March 11, 2009 CET | From | Conservative Union | To | Debating the The Labor Crisis Bill |
| Message | As much as I agree with a higher corporation tax, I don't like the idea of DWCs (whether they be optional or not). |
| Date | 22:17:16, March 11, 2009 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the The Labor Crisis Bill |
| Message | I'm a little in the middle. I agree with Article 2. However article 1, I know we should raise it but I think the number should go down a little. |
| Date | 21:06:57, March 12, 2009 CET | From | Communist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the The Labor Crisis Bill |
| Message | We support 100%. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 382 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 317 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 51 |
| Random fact: Voters have an extra appreciation for bills that actually get passed, so if you want to maximally take profit from your votes, make sure you compromise with others. |
| Random quote: First and second class seats on public transport shall be BANNED! We are all FIRST CLASS people, regardless of whether we are rich or poor and can afford or not afford to pay for a more expensive seat. From now on, all seats on trains, buses, trams, planes and so on shall be the SAME. We will all travel in the SAME way, TOGETHER. ~ Friedrich Pfeiffer General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party |