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Bill: Tax Reforms
Details
Submitted by[?]: Drasciian New Left
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: March 2804
Description[?]:
| Unfortunate to say, taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society. We can have a society where people's successes are determined by their merit and character, where all people have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, or we can have a leave it to beaver state with no education or opportunities for the poor, no level playing field, skill and economic disparity carrying on through generations and no social mobility. We can not, as the opposition party the Sons of the Liberty seem to suggest, have both. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 0
Current: 15
Proposed: 15
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 1
Current: 5
Proposed: 7
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:59:01, August 17, 2009 CET | From | Liberal Union | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | The Liberal Union is willing to support this, but notes perhaps we should utilise the current budget before moving to vote. |
| Date | 13:19:20, August 17, 2009 CET | From | Drasciian New Left | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | The current budget is something like 0.00-whatever % of the GDP. We're trying to govern for 360,000,000 folks or so. Our entire head of state, his chief of staff, the communications director, the press secretary, the entire staff of scores, apparently are allocated the same funding yearly as what an average citizen earns. Now we're sticking to the previous pledge by our libertarian peers, to keep spending below 1% of GDP even under my new scheme. I don't think it's an unreasonable price. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 108 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 73 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 84 |
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