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Bill: Bill 039602 "Income tax proposal"
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Worker's Party
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 2197
Description[?]:
The United Worker's Party propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Free Republic of Jelbania. |
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 |
> 1,000 JEL | 2% | 1,146,000,000 JEL |
> 2,000 JEL | 7% | 12,032,000,000 JEL |
> 5,000 JEL | 13% | 37,242,000,000 JEL |
> 10,000 JEL | 19% | 54,430,000,000 JEL |
> 15,000 JEL | 26% | 148,967,000,000 JEL |
> 25,000 JEL | 34% | 462,681,000,000 JEL |
> 70,000 JEL | 41% | 161,367,000,000 JEL |
> 100,000 JEL | 50% | 188,587,000,000 JEL | Total | 1,066,452,000,000 JEL |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 13:38:40, March 07, 2006 CET | From | United Worker's Party | To | Debating the Bill 039602 "Income tax proposal" |
Message | This adds another bracket for VERY low income families, so they only have to pay 2% instead of 7%. Hopefully this will help them to get by easier. |
Date | 21:57:33, March 07, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Bill 039602 "Income tax proposal" |
Message | 1) Ahhh, but if taxes are lowered on the rich bussiness owners, then that VERY low income family can get a better job and make more money. Mind you, this will not happen instantly, but will take time. in the end, that family will have a better job to make money with. A new job will probably give more than a 5% increase in the family's money. Be patient. 2) Why are we punishing the rich with a 50% deduction in their wages? They earn their money too. What kind of incentive is it to get punished when one succeeds?! 3) Rather than lower their taxes and raise the rich's, why not tell the low income families to get an education of some sort? |
Date | 02:00:35, March 08, 2006 CET | From | United Worker's Party | To | Debating the Bill 039602 "Income tax proposal" |
Message | they arnt being punished, they are just helping out those who are less fortunate. how would you feel if you were poor? and the government tells you that its your fault your poor because you have no education |
Date | 21:49:13, March 08, 2006 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Bill 039602 "Income tax proposal" |
Message | We applaud the United Worker's Party for this compassionate social democratic measure. |
Date | 21:23:33, March 09, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Bill 039602 "Income tax proposal" |
Message | United Workers Party, It is not the governments job to take from the rich and give to the poor. That is the rich's job. What if that rich person already donates money to the poor? We believe this is a moral obligation, but a choice also. If a person does not want to give to the poor, they should not have to. |
Date | 21:30:26, March 09, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Bill 039602 "Income tax proposal" |
Message | If I was poor, I would not want people's money taken from them forcefully and given to me. That is not fair, did you not learn that in pre-school? You learned sharing in pre-school. That you should share voluntarily, no? That rich person should share with the poor, but that is his choice, not yours. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||
yes | Total Seats: 359 | |||
no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
abstain | Total Seats: 142 |
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