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Bill: Income Tax Reintroduction 4033
Details
Submitted by[?]: RISE Movement
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill proposes to change income taxes. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 4033
Description[?]:
| The RISE Movement propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Democratic Republic of Solentia. |
Proposals
Article 1
We propose to alter income tax brackets to the following setup. Information about the current income tax system can be found here.
| Bracket | Tax | Estimated Revenue |
| > 15,000 SOL | 5% | 25,919,000,000 SOL |
| > 25,000 SOL | 15% | 85,020,000,000 SOL |
| > 40,000 SOL | 30% | 135,663,000,000 SOL |
| > 60,000 SOL | 35% | 69,368,000,000 SOL |
| > 75,000 SOL | 40% | 100,053,000,000 SOL |
| > 100,000 SOL | 49% | 72,603,000,000 SOL | Total | 488,626,000,000 SOL |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:31:11, May 23, 2016 CET | From |  RISE Movement | To | Debating the Income Tax Reintroduction 4033 |
| Message | Let's be honest, to fund our roads, schools and hospitals we must have an income tax. The idea of a tax free safe heaven works on paper and only on paper. When there were the tiny budgets there was a complete breakdown of the education and healthcare system. |
| Date | 21:31:29, May 23, 2016 CET | From | RISE Movement | To | Debating the Income Tax Reintroduction 4033 |
| Message | Andrew Smith RISE Leader |
| Date | 15:42:39, May 24, 2016 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the Income Tax Reintroduction 4033 |
| Message | We cannot afford to destroy the economy by increasing taxes. This means poor people will pay taxes as someone who makes $15,000 cannot afford taxes. This also stumps economic growth as the 50% tax on the $100k people means they can't invest it anyomore. We urge all parties to stop this disasterful move. |
| Date | 16:34:40, May 24, 2016 CET | From | Libertarian Socialist Confederation | To | Debating the Income Tax Reintroduction 4033 |
| Message | (OOC: SOL≠USD.) |
| Date | 17:13:54, May 24, 2016 CET | From | RISE Movement | To | Debating the Income Tax Reintroduction 4033 |
| Message | I'm afraid the only thing that ruins the economy is the mass inequality the Republican party established. Our schools and roads were completely under budgeted, the country was a mess under the Republicans. That's what destroys our economy, not a piece of legislation to provide funding for schools and tackles inequality. President Ellis Attenborough RISE Co-Leader |
| Date | 19:08:56, May 24, 2016 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the Income Tax Reintroduction 4033 |
| Message | The Republican Party is commited to not raising taxes and we urge all people to realize that the government has gotten greedy and needs more money |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 382 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 313 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 55 |
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