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Bill: Slight tax Change
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberty Party
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: January 3759
Description[?]:
| This is a nearly insignificant sales tax raise that will bring in the extra money need to sustain a surplus. Every good country has to have surplus. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 0
Proposed: 2
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:36:06, November 14, 2014 CET | From | Conservative Realism Party | To | Debating the Slight tax Change |
| Message | A 2% sales tax isn't much, but it will decrease commercial activity. Our idea for fixing the budget is to let the finance minister possibly raise the income tax and decrease spending. We aren't raising taxes, but an essential goods sales tax is something we disagree with. We also do not agree with the luxury tax. We believe that the rich keeping their money is a bad thing. I'm not saying that we want them to get taxed to oblivion, I'm saying we want to use it. By using it we mean the things below. This is from most important to least important. 1. Donating it to the church or the charity (top priority) 2. Spending it on creating new businesses. New businesses create jobs. 3. Spending it on innovation. Creating cures, inventions, and ideologies with their great minds is good. 4. They shall buy stuff. Buying too much stuff can be selfish, but it keeps the economy going. 5. Getting income taxed. This is for the well-being of society, and it is necessary. Not too much tax, though. Those 5 ways are key to running a successful nation that doesn't need to implement too many programs. A sales tax stops the rich from buying things, and it therefore slows down the economy because money isn't flowing in and out of their hands. They need to be allowed to spend their money without being taxed. |
| Date | 02:26:19, November 14, 2014 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Slight tax Change |
| Message | It's such a small tax that it will hardly effect commercial activity, while still giving us that extra boost. |
| Date | 05:23:49, November 14, 2014 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Slight tax Change |
| Message | An introduction of a tax on non-luxury items would effect those on the lowest incomes disproportionately more than those on higher incomes. This Government will not attack, nor be seen to attack, those who require the most help in our society. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 325 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Information about the population of each country can be found on the Population Information thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8663 |
| Random quote: "I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." - Martin Luther King Jr. |