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Bill: Income tax proposal of February 2345
Details
Submitted by[?]: Spiritualists' National Union
Status[?]: defeated
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: October 2345
Description[?]:
| The very richest should pay a little more in order to close our budget deficit and fund modest improvements in public services. |
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 |
| > 5,000 LPD | 32% | 49,843,000,000 LPD |
| > 10,000 LPD | 40% | 37,022,000,000 LPD | Total | 86,865,000,000 LPD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:57:46, January 15, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2345 |
| Message | 32% is already an outrage - this is simply profane! |
| Date | 23:07:38, January 15, 2007 CET | From | Redneck Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2345 |
| Message | This is outright theft. No sane party can support this. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 26 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 74 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Unless otherwise stated, monarchs and their royal houses will be presumed to be owned by the player who introduced the bill appointing them to their position. |
| Random quote: Henceforth, the current system of first and second class stamps, where the rich can pay to have their mail delivered faster than the poor, shall be BANNED. There shall be only one class of mail delivery, and ALL mail shall travel at the SAME speed for EVERYBODY. There can be no class discrimination in the People's Post Office! There must be the SAME class of mail service FOR ALL! ~ Friedrich Pfeiffer General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party |