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Bill: Luxury Sales Tax Reduction Act of 3098
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Aloria Party (NAP)
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: January 3099
Description[?]:
| "The luxury sales tax needs to be lowered and the reasons why have been proven in the pass. With a low sales tax people will spend more, and the more money people spend the better the econonmy is. Revune from sales tax have went up after we decressed the tax because people started to spend. I believe this tax should be higher then the regular sales tax but people should not have to spend an arm and leg on sales tax just to buy an item they have been saving up for so long. The rich will buy luxury good items no matter what but the middle and poor have to save up for all these and a high sales tax prevent them from buying such an item. We ask for your I vote"-Donald King |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 45
Current: 25
Proposed: 35
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:42:24, March 30, 2011 CET | From | Christian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Luxury Sales Tax Reduction Act of 3098 |
| Message | The President as well as all the MPs for the Christian Democratic Party support this bill. - Frank Brimginton, Senior CDP member |
| Date | 00:59:28, March 31, 2011 CET | From | Revolutionary Worker's Party | To | Debating the Luxury Sales Tax Reduction Act of 3098 |
| Message | We disagree. You should lower taxes on the poor, not on the rich. This shows well how the ''People's'' Party and the CDP benefit the rich instead of the poor, Lowering the taxes on the rich, leaving them on the absolute poor. I didn't know anti-Robin Hood actually existed. |
| Date | 01:11:25, March 31, 2011 CET | From | Christian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Luxury Sales Tax Reduction Act of 3098 |
| Message | How is this lowering the tax on the rich? Sure they already purchase luxury goods, but this allows those that can't afford luxury goods due to the high tax to hopefully now be able to attain them. This really benefits everyone, or has the potential to. |
| Date | 01:12:37, March 31, 2011 CET | From | Christian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Luxury Sales Tax Reduction Act of 3098 |
| Message | Also, no new tax burden has been placed. Not once have we, other than the income tax restructuring - brought on by Labour -, has any new taxes been put in place. Read my lips, no new taxes. OOC: at the last line, : D |
| Date | 02:05:47, March 31, 2011 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Luxury Sales Tax Reduction Act of 3098 |
| Message | The RWP argument has no facts presented except for the same talking points all liberials do and that is that don't lower taxes for the rich. This is a tax that effects both the rich and poor and we have not voted for any higher tax at all. We would like to see how this going to have a burden placed on the poor. Thank you-Donald King |
| Date | 08:33:52, March 31, 2011 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Luxury Sales Tax Reduction Act of 3098 |
| Message | PP, the RWP has actually put up a very good argument, a very good one. As you in and the CDP are toffs and love making fortune out of other people's misfortune, I see why you are in favour of letting the toffs rule the joint. This tax deduction will 9 out of every 10 time benefit the rich. Rarely will a poorer person save up for a luxury item if they can get a cheaper one which is just as good. Put it this way, there are two cars one is a new and really good but expensive one, the other is recently new but second hand and relatively cheap. Which class do you think will go where? Of course the toffs will go for the luxurious ones as they can afford it, but the lower class will go for the cheaper one as that is all they can afford. So what this deduction is essentially doing is letting the rich off scott free and increasing the gap between rich and poor. OOC: CDP, where have I heard that phrase before? Wasn't it one of your presidents who said that? Bush Sr. I think it was, am I correct? But I know was that when he said that phrase a while later he did introduce a new tax, so what Bush Sr. did was lie to you Americans and tricked people into voting for him. What is it with you right wingers and making promises you know you wont keep? Take our former PM Margaret Thatcher for example in her famous 1980 speech "The Lady's Not For Turning" she said: "To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the 'U-turn', I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning." (I remember that clearly, I have heard that speech many times) Anyway, what she was saying was vote Conservative, we don't turn back on our promises, when we say them we mean them, taxes are only what the Labour Party does not us. But in 1990 she introduced a Poll Tax so in fact she did do a U-Turn and the Lady was for turning! I still cannot believe that her successor John Major managed to sneak in with a surprise election victory in 1992 when it was expected to either be a hung parliament or Labour winning outright. But at least we romped home in 1997 |
| Date | 19:30:04, March 31, 2011 CET | From | Christian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Luxury Sales Tax Reduction Act of 3098 |
| Message | OOC: Yup, it was Bush Sr. As for right-wingers, it's generally ever politician has a tendency to change their minds on issues when they are elected. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 496 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 254 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow role-play that seems to belong to the world of fantasy, science fiction and futuristic speculation. |
| Random quote: "It is obvious that the laissez-faire ideology represents the interests of big business. For decades, the right-wing has opposed welfare programs and nationalised companies, in favour of big business disguised under 'economic liberty'." - Cecilia Xu, former Gaduri politician |