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Bill: Peoples' Tax Cuts
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperial Alliance
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: February 4053
Description[?]:
| Madam Speaker, The hard-working people of Beluzia deserve a well-earned break from the exorbitant tax rates they have been being forced to pay in recent years. The current 76% income tax rate is unacceptable and unsustainable. Senator Cosmo Adams Chairman of the Imperial Alliance |
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 |
| > 8,000 BEL | 40% | 204,993,000,000 BEL |
| > 20,000 BEL | 50% | 135,062,000,000 BEL | Total | 340,055,000,000 BEL |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:26:31, July 01, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | You want income inequality. Nice. Do you not listen? |
| Date | 16:29:32, July 01, 2016 CET | From | The Milita and Freedom Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | Madam Speaker, I beg you and the senate to disregards the BPDP's straw man, we need to give our people liberty from our government's harsh taxes. |
| Date | 16:31:20, July 01, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | Madam Speaker, The Imperial Alliance is insulting the Speaker. She is from the BPDP and asking her to disregard us is outrageous. |
| Date | 16:52:19, July 01, 2016 CET | From | The Milita and Freedom Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | Madam Speaker, We are the Nationalist Party and we believe that the BPDP is insulting you and the senate by thinking strawmen and ad hominems are ok for the discussion of a bill and saying that you are bound by party to accept their logical fallacies. |
| Date | 17:01:22, July 01, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | May we ask the Nationalist Party to refrain from using Madam Speaker, as they do not have parliamentary sests yet |
| Date | 17:11:21, July 01, 2016 CET | From | The Milita and Freedom Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | http://i.imgur.com/ix5G5pg.png This was before the Imperial Alliance had any seats so you can you please stop it with you ad hominems BPDP |
| Date | 17:14:52, July 01, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | This is Parliament, not some restaurant or school |
| Date | 17:15:16, July 01, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | People should be respected |
| Date | 17:19:13, July 01, 2016 CET | From | The Milita and Freedom Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | I agree we should use real arguments, not ad hominems and strawmen, this is no place for logical fallacies. |
| Date | 17:40:22, July 01, 2016 CET | From | SLP-Libertarian Alliance | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | Madam speaker This is a senate and the party that changed it to a senate because parliament "didn't sound official" now never uses the word senate. That and these cuts are too radical and will give us over 100billion BEL in a deficit. |
| Date | 18:33:58, July 01, 2016 CET | From | The Milita and Freedom Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | Madam Speaker, If you loo at the data you can see with these new tax brackets we would have 340,511,000,000 BEL + 6,019,662,535BEL from the Corporation Tax + 69,030,010,522 BEL from the Sales Tax, that equals 415,560,673,057 BEL in tax revenue then we look at the excesses for each cabinet and that is Head of Government 1,000,000,000 BEL Foreign Affairs 5,000,000,000 BEL Internal Affairs 20,000,000,000 BEL Finance 2,000,000,000 BEL Defence 100,000,000,000 BEL Justice 5,000,000,000 BEL Infrastructure and Transport 50,000,000,000 BEL Health and Social Services 100,000,000,000 BEL Education and Culture 100,000,000,000 BEL Science and Technology 5,000,000,000 BEL Food and Agriculture 5,000,000,000 BEL Environment and Tourism 10,000,000,000 BEL Trade and Industry 10,000,000,000 BEL Total 413,000,000,000 BEL so 415,560,673,057 BEL in tax revenue - 413,000,000,000 BEL in exspenses= 2,560,673,057 BEL surples |
| Date | 18:34:49, July 01, 2016 CET | From | The Milita and Freedom Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | * Surplus sorry |
| Date | 18:36:28, July 01, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | If the luxury tax is cut, we'll have a deficit |
| Date | 18:47:09, July 01, 2016 CET | From | The Milita and Freedom Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | May I see your math on that? |
| Date | 18:52:36, July 01, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | Just think about it. No need for calculations. 10% cut. |
| Date | 18:52:58, July 01, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | Not 0.1, 0.5, or 5 |
| Date | 19:56:05, July 01, 2016 CET | From | The Milita and Freedom Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | Yes but that bill is likely going to be voted on no by the Beluzian Liberty and Freedom Party and thus not pass. |
| Date | 04:16:58, July 02, 2016 CET | From | Beluzian Liberty and Freedom Party | To | Debating the Peoples' Tax Cuts |
| Message | Madam Speaker, While we understand budget concerns, but at the same time, we are unsure of how such an action would propagate income inequality, given that the lower taxes only apply to lower incomes. In theory, these tax breaks would allow even more upward mobility for lower-income individuals. If there is something we are missing with this, we apologize. -Hon. Sen. Pocock |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 404 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 346 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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