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Bill: Sales Tax Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Democrats
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: December 2815
Description[?]:
| We should stop taxing the poor on necessary goods. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 5
Current: 20
Proposed: 0
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 5
Current: 33
Proposed: 15
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:50:40, September 09, 2009 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Sales Tax Act |
| Message | The budget has an extraordinary surplus of 37 billion already. Your proposed change would eradicate the 31 billion currently received by the sales tax on essential goods and almost double the overall sales revenue by tripling the sales tax on luxury goods (to 62 billion). I don't think, with the surplus in mind, we need to tax as much on luxury goods. What I would propose is a fundamental overhaul of the budget and, if elected at the next election, The Liberal Democratic Party will strive to balance a much fairer budget. It is scandalous that, with such huge reserves, the current government spends so little on the environment (90 million), just 3 billion on education and just 3.5 billion on health. It is time to balance Rutania's finances for the better of the people. |
| Date | 00:59:17, September 09, 2009 CET | From | United Democrats | To | Debating the Sales Tax Act |
| Message | Would the Liberal Democratic Party like to propose a more suitable tax proposal? I felt this bill would go some way to eradicate our reliance on luxury goods while relieving the lower classes of taxes on the items they need to survive. |
| Date | 01:52:22, September 09, 2009 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Sales Tax Act |
| Message | Adam Lovell, Liberal Democratic spokesman for Finance, will be submitting a comprehensive spending plan in due course. It will no doubt include proposals to relieve the lower classes of unnecessary taxes. |
| Date | 02:35:10, September 09, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Heritage Party | To | Debating the Sales Tax Act |
| Message | Not only is this change unnecessary, as the LDP have demonstrated, but it is merely a bitter and envious attack on the wealthy. We believe the current flat-rate sales tax is ideal, and is certainly preferable to the alternative, which is direct income taxation at the expense of personal initiative, responsibility and motivation. If the NDPR would drop their bleeding-heart, sanctimonious-liberal act for a moment, they would see that this legislation is not only needless, but fiscally impractical and blatantly biased. |
| Date | 07:27:05, September 09, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Elitist Party | To | Debating the Sales Tax Act |
| Message | As a matter of fact we do not believe either in this artificial method of levelling society. The government should not have power to intervene in the social and economical fabric of the society. We prefer the status quo in this issue. And about the budgetary surplus of our country: believe us, there are many ways of spending it. |
| Date | 13:56:20, September 09, 2009 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Sales Tax Act |
| Message | And how many terms have you been the majority party now? Yet you still spend such a pittance on the environment, schools and hospitals? Just how terms do you need to sort out the surplus? |
| Date | 18:44:30, September 09, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Elitist Party | To | Debating the Sales Tax Act |
| Message | It is obvious that the LDP is not fully aware of the economic fabric of our country. This is not a problem, because everything can be learnt and discovered in time. But we do not accept to attacked on the basis of fragile knowledge. Environment, education, health, tourism etc. are organized according to devolutionist principles, the different region produce own policies and funds. The central government is a weak one occupying with a few areas (foreign policy, security, trade) and has a low interference with the field belonging to the jurisdiction of regional commonwealths. |
| Date | 23:23:24, September 09, 2009 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Sales Tax Act |
| Message | We believe education should be the responsiblity of a central government so that we can guarntee every child in Rutania receives the same, first class, education. We could also make sure it is given the highest of priorties. |
| Date | 00:39:51, September 10, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Heritage Party | To | Debating the Sales Tax Act |
| Message | The LDP assumes not only that the federal can provide a better education than the private sector, but that local governments are somehow inept in funding and managing public schools, and that the federal government will be more effective in this. Both assumptions are absurd and false. |
| Date | 11:14:21, September 10, 2009 CET | From | People's Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Sales Tax Act |
| Message | The proposed tax on luxury goods seems to be a proposed punishment on the more afluent of the Rutanian citizens. Would the NDPR reconsider a more reasonable value for Article 2? As it stands, Article 1 has our full support, but the punitive Article 2 forces the PPR to abstain. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 305 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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