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Bill: Share Our Wealth Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Popular Action Party 인기있는 행동
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: September 3444
Description[?]:
| This bill proposes to reduce inequality and increasing the state's role in economic policy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 8
Current: 22
Proposed: 50
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: The state owns the commanding heights of the economy and all major industries, but private ownership is allowed in the minor industries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:51:46, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Radical Liberal Party of Dranland | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker We support this marvelous act. Georgia McCormick MP from Elbian Leader of Progressive Parliamentary |
| Date | 20:02:13, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Radical Liberal Party of Dranland | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | OOC: I just see the pension article after business taxation and industry bill i oppose |
| Date | 20:04:27, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Popular Action Party 인기있는 행동 | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | It's time to stop negotiating with the robber barons and their puppet parties and lay out our views as they are. Men and women of the left/reformists and even fascists let us join together and smash the vulture capitalism which sucks violently at the udders of Dranland. Joan Awana Co-chair and Foreign affairs Spokesperson of the LOL |
| Date | 20:07:43, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Popular Action Party 인기있는 행동 | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | OOC: Pensions gone, out of place anyway. |
| Date | 20:20:16, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, once again the self-proclaimed heroes of the working class are out for an onslaught on Dranish jobs by trying to funnel even more hard-earned tax money into the greedy throat of big government. We vehemently oppose this communist bill. Luciano Eustáquio MP Member for Ulbrach GNP Parliamentary Leader |
| Date | 20:41:36, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Popular Action Party 인기있는 행동 | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, It is radical free marketeers like the Hon Gentleman who insist on corporate welfare and keeping the poor 'in their place'. Companies did not build the roads, schools and hospitals which look after their workers' needs. 8% corporation tax is a joke and an insult to working people who pay 20% income tax. There will be no onslaught on jobs because the Government will create and guarantee many jobs. Rosa Luxem Finance Critic |
| Date | 20:49:13, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, so companies did not build the roads, schools and hospitals? How come that Dranland had a private hospital system for many decades until the left messed it up? How come we had a long-standing policy of contracting with private contenders when it came to building roads and highways until the left messed it up? Yes, further in the past we even had a private education system which allowed for individualized choice and diversity, but even then, the left messed it up. With regards to corporation tax, Mrs Luxem's populist rants can be easily debunked: Even though companies pay only 8 percent tax, their owners' income is taxed with 20 and their shareholder's with similar figures. Meanwhile, there is not a single middle-class worker in Dranland paying a 20 percent income tax, thanks to the GNP and its allies. Luciano Eustáquio MP Member for Ulbrach GNP Parliamentary Leader OOC: Rosa Luxem? Come on, isn't that a bit obvious?^^ |
| Date | 21:13:59, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Radical Liberal Party of Dranland | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker Mrs.Luxem's suggestions mostly true in theory, right don't trust the government that we rule and left don't trust the private companies. In Terra both sides have reasonable amount of cases for distrust. We need efficient and auditable systems that works we need a mixed system that has both government and private systems. Our Progressive taxation scheme with appropriate cuts was denied by parliament unanimously. Progressive taxation increase in eduction budget and severe cuts to defense is our ultimate aim for Dranland. Why this business always has to be the greedy big companies this tax increase only devastates small businesses both LOL's and GNP's proposal's extreme and bad for Dranland. Georgia McCormick MP from Elbian Leader of Progressive Parliamentary |
| Date | 21:14:44, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Radical Liberal Party of Dranland | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | OOC: you can change ger surname to Liech. |
| Date | 21:42:18, February 20, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, this Bill represents an important step in the right direction. Dranland is a grossly unequal society, where economic power is unfairly and dangerously concentrated in the hands of a very, very small minority. Diego Barreto MP (Leader of the DSP) OOC: "smash the vulture capitalism which sucks violently at the udders of Dranland" - I like that line lol! |
| Date | 23:35:08, February 20, 2013 CET | From | P.A.R.D | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker,clearly a well thought out bill like this is what we need. Daniel Falcao MP Jefe de Partido |
| Date | 13:49:19, February 21, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Party | To | Debating the Share Our Wealth Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, The LOL Party is LOLING right? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 160 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 239 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Kubrk" is a Jelbic word that has the colloquial meaning "old man" or "geezer". |
| Random quote: "We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it." - John Sherman |