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Bill: Proposal to raise sales tax
Details
Submitted by[?]: True Representation Party
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: June 3237
Description[?]:
| As much as we hate to raise taxes, Cobura is beginning to experience financial struggles. In order to keep the books balanced something has to be done. So the True Representation Party proposes to raise the sales tax to 10%. If you oppose, than please give an alternative. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 5
Current: 15
Proposed: 10
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:44:18, December 31, 2011 CET | From |  Liberala Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Proposal to raise sales tax |
| Message | Holy cannoli, we're in debt! We don't like the sales tax, but we will support this. |
| Date | 23:20:16, December 31, 2011 CET | From | Social Congress | To | Debating the Proposal to raise sales tax |
| Message | The Social Congress would support a rise in the mid to higher bands of Income Tax to cut the surplus, but not of the regressive sales tax. |
| Date | 23:27:30, December 31, 2011 CET | From | True Representation Party | To | Debating the Proposal to raise sales tax |
| Message | Yea, I kind of crept on us |
| Date | 04:01:41, January 01, 2012 CET | From | Social Darwinist Party | To | Debating the Proposal to raise sales tax |
| Message | We don't like the sales tax, but we'll support for the budget deficit. I would rather decrease spending or rework the income tax system though. Although this will probably be left for the next legislative session. |
| Date | 05:58:49, January 01, 2012 CET | From | True Representation Party | To | Debating the Proposal to raise sales tax |
| Message | I'll propose a decrease on spending as well, until we get on top of things. Maybe I'm the only one that would like this ideology, but for the long term I'd love to see no income tax at all(or at least alot lower), and an increase in sales tax, so people get taxed on what they purchase, not what they make. Don't shoot me haha any thoughts on that? |
| Date | 21:14:56, January 01, 2012 CET | From | Liberala Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Proposal to raise sales tax |
| Message | We vastly prefer the income tax to the sales tax. |
| Date | 04:17:03, January 02, 2012 CET | From | Social Darwinist Party | To | Debating the Proposal to raise sales tax |
| Message | I want a 10% flat income tax, a 10% luxury tax, no essential goods tax, and a 10% corporate tax and then cut government spending to whatever you can pay for under that level... but I'm not the Finance Minister and I don't have 335 votes in the National Assembly. |
| Date | 17:16:07, January 02, 2012 CET | From | Social Congress | To | Debating the Proposal to raise sales tax |
| Message | a FLAT RATE income tax?!? *coma* |
| Date | 22:28:41, January 02, 2012 CET | From | Liberala Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Proposal to raise sales tax |
| Message | CCP, would you want poor people to be exempt from these taxes? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 447 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 218 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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