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Bill: Tax Cuts
Details
Submitted by[?]: Independent Capitalist 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: March 2163
Description[?]:
| A small, proportional cut of the sales taxes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 5
Current: 15
Proposed: 4
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 10
Current: 25
Proposed: 8
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:46:36, December 24, 2005 CET | From | Social Reform Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | No more tax cuts! |
| Date | 16:54:54, December 24, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | It's a small tax cut. It doesn't benefit the corporations much, mainly the average people who buy things! |
| Date | 16:55:31, December 24, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | Yes, rich people buy things, too, but proportionally it will benefit the whole population and since there are more poor people than rich people it'll help the poor people. |
| Date | 17:01:31, December 24, 2005 CET | From |  Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | But it won't help in terms of deficits! We should be rasing taxes if anything else! |
| Date | 17:23:21, December 24, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | Uh... I was looking at the economy page. Revenue: 70,674,309,596 ALO Expenses: 70,076,000,000 ALO Surplus: 598,309,596 ALO We're no longer in a deficit. We can afford tax cuts. |
| Date | 17:25:32, December 24, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | Besides, I don't think a nat'l gov't that devolves so much justifies such a high tax rate. |
| Date | 18:57:05, December 24, 2005 CET | From | Social Reform Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | Perhaps we devolve things too much, then? |
| Date | 23:15:01, December 25, 2005 CET | From | Memorare Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | Devolving state resources is ....bad mmkay |
| Date | 00:07:38, December 26, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | I'll put this up to vote if the MP or some other party supports it. It'll probably get ICP/HCP/CNP votes. |
| Date | 00:09:02, December 28, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | I'll put this up to vote again when HCP/CNP return. Otherwise it wouldn't pass. |
| Date | 16:39:52, December 28, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | We support Article I, but not Article II. |
| Date | 17:30:42, December 28, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Tax Cuts |
| Message | This bill will only pass if HCP/CNP return or if they leave and I get much of their seats. So if it fails, I'll have to repropose it at a later time. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 276 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 212 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 112 |
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