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Bill: Promoting a Better Society Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Alliance Res Publica
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: February 2868
Description[?]:
| Alliance Res Publica points to the benefits for faith in our society and seeks to encourage its development. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: All religious income, despite the use, is taxed.
Current: All religious income, despite the use, is taxed.
Proposed: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Current: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Proposed: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:36:18, December 24, 2009 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Promoting a Better Society Act |
| Message | Now why would we vote to eliminate regulations on religious schools when those are the only things that keep them from teaching historical inaccuracies like humans hunted dinosaurs or that God told man that certain men were in charge of most other men? |
| Date | 04:58:41, December 24, 2009 CET | From | Alliance Res Publica | To | Debating the Promoting a Better Society Act |
| Message | Due to the simple fact that the government's decision to regulate schools may lead to completely going against the point of have a religious school |
| Date | 15:29:53, December 24, 2009 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Promoting a Better Society Act |
| Message | Precisely. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 86 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 483 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 130 |
| Random fact: The Real-Life Equivalents Index is a valuable resource for finding out the in-game equivalents of real-life cultures, languages, religions, people and places: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6731 |
| Random quote: "The only people who would be hurt by abandoning the Kyoto Protocol would be several thousand people who make a living attending conferences on global warming." - Kirill Kondratyev |