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Bill: Voluntary Taxes
Details
Submitted by[?]: removed
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2037
Description[?]:
| Remove punishments for not paying taxes |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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From | | To | Debating the Voluntary Taxes | | Message | Yes, but less than now. If something is worth doing, then people are smart enough to support it even if you don't browbeat them into it. Thus this law helps us spend government money exactly on that which is worth the expenditure. |
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From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Voluntary Taxes | | Message | We support lower taxes, but you can't not penalise people who don't pay the taxes that they should. Otherwise no-one would pay them and the government would gain little of the revenue which it needs. Taxation is just one of those things which cannot be voluntary |
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From |  Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Voluntary Taxes | | Message | This bill is essentially asking that the government should survive on donations. In other words, it's a "Let's turn into Somalia!" bill. |
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From | | To | Debating the Voluntary Taxes | | Message | Yes and no. The government should not have the power to force any stupidities on people, that is the content of the resolution. But the problem in Somalia is NOT too little government coersion, but too much coersion by fighting government factions. If this was a proposal that would count it would not create any risk of a Somalia-situation. |
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From | | To | Debating the Voluntary Taxes | | Message | The point of taxes is to get money for public spending. The point of making taxes voluntary as opposed to collected by coersion is that then the government like everyone else gets more money the better a job it does and decreases wastage. |
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From | | To | Debating the Voluntary Taxes | | Message | No it isn't. Punishments are supposed to be bad things, so that they discourage people from doing crimes. Tax (or that which it pays for) is supposed to be a good thing, so coersion should not be necessary. |
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| Vote |
Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 95 |
| no | Total Seats: 2 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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