S4: Repeal of the Elimination of Income Tax Act (Failed)

[Leinad]

I think this bill is necessary in order to raise revenues in order to fund infrastructure, in order to tackle our unemployment, the largest in the nation, among other things.

Have you done any sort of calculations that prove, without a doubt, that regardless of what we do regarding corporate taxes, that the personal income tax must be reintroduced? Or is it just "oh no the Chamber [unanimously] got rid of a tax, we need to bring it back!!!"

[Leinad]

Infrastructure is important also. If the Governor cares that we have the largest regional unemployment.

Ah yes, the classic "I disagree with your way of "fixing things" -> I don't want things to be fixed" fallacy

How would we go about the creation of the new income tax? Could we just include it in here?

It's just a repeal of the repeal bill. The old income tax is reinstated and we can amend that as needed from there.

That's kind of silly though, no? So this is just a bill with no real articulated need--just based on a guess that we won't be able to afford throwing money at everything as it is--without even any clue of what to do next? One could even argue the validity of the "old income tax," considering it's just the RL state tax codes (and state laws are a rarely-acknowledged part of Atlasia and thus a little fuzzy on exactly how it works).

[Leinad]

Aye
(I think you should vote Aye b/c not only would increasing the corporation tax not provide enough money to work on education OR infrastructure (even one issue, not both). It would also create increased strain on corporations operating in our region, perhaps exacerbating our unemployment issue.)

Increasing corporate tax revenue =/= increasing corporate tax rates. It could just mean removing loopholes, for example.

[Leinad]

With 3 Ayes and 2 nays, this bill passes.

Hmm...maybe.......

...nah

VETO

[Leinad]

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2/3 * 7 > 3

So, no, it did not pass.