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Bill: Taxation Reduction
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sue's Corner
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 2990
Description[?]:
| Reduce Tax where possible and roll back the state. Presented by Shadow Chancellor, Coleen Power. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 36
Current: 0
Proposed: 2
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 15
Current: 0
Proposed: 0
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:51:05, August 24, 2010 CET | From |  Sue's Corner | To | Debating the Taxation Reduction |
| Message | We believe firmly that corporations and businesses should pay some tax, but 36% is far too much, it will sway people away from making money, setting up businesses and achieving. The more people aspire the harder they seem to be hit by tax. As for Luxury Goods Tax, this is targeted primarily on the rich and again, we cannot try and undermine aspiration and achievement. We have to have incentives for people to do well and not kick hard working people in the teeth. Coleen Power Shadow Chancellor |
| Date | 22:51:06, August 24, 2010 CET | From | Sue's Corner | To | Debating the Taxation Reduction |
| Message | We believe firmly that corporations and businesses should pay some tax, but 36% is far too much, it will sway people away from making money, setting up businesses and achieving. The more people aspire the harder they seem to be hit by tax. As for Luxury Goods Tax, this is targeted primarily on the rich and again, we cannot try and undermine aspiration and achievement. We have to have incentives for people to do well and not kick hard working people in the teeth. Coleen Power Shadow Chancellor |
| Date | 22:56:15, August 24, 2010 CET | From | Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Taxation Reduction |
| Message | "Without appropriate changes to departmental spending with the approval of the Finance Secretary, these figures would put the nation in a budget defecit. The height of fiscal irrisponsibility." Christian Niras, Unionist Spokesman for Finance and Economics. |
| Date | 01:51:36, August 25, 2010 CET | From | Meritocratic Alliance | To | Debating the Taxation Reduction |
| Message | These cuts are too harsh. |
| Date | 03:45:02, August 25, 2010 CET | From | Conservative Party of Solentia | To | Debating the Taxation Reduction |
| Message | OOC: From an old party that spent a lot of time on this stuff: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=293582 |
| Date | 11:31:49, August 25, 2010 CET | From | Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Taxation Reduction |
| Message | OOC: I love the desperation in the "please read" part. Epic. |
| Date | 18:40:37, August 25, 2010 CET | From | Conservative Party of Solentia | To | Debating the Taxation Reduction |
| Message | OOC: Well, it's one of the pieces of my work for Solentia that actually makes legitimate OOC sense, in my opinion. These proposed tax cuts will knock out roughly a trillion SOL of the budget, bringing Solentia's government expenditure to roughly 15% of GDP, which is (arguably) impossibly low. The way that Solentia's government is RPed is not NEARLY as small as a government spending 20% of GDP ought to be RPed in the first place, there's practically no government intervention in a nation with 20% of GDP as government expenditure, and as I stated in that bill, the USA spends roughly 26% and I believe that THAT is an example of relatively small government (though to be fair, I believe it may have risen in the time since I posted that.) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 16 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 84 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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