SENATE BILL: Napoleon Tax Cut Bill (Vetoed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Sponsor: Napoleon

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The sponsor has 24 hours to begin advocating for this bill.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I beleive in the Budget Restart Process, we determined that it was about $9 Trillion or so and that was back in 2010. It shouldn't be much different now.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Doesn't a surplus by definition go to paying down the debt?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Just so we are clear, none of these proposals have actually been offered at this point, correct?

My text sifting isn't working too well, especially since I spent all last night screwing around with antiquated and obsolete technology and then reading about 50 pages in my old History textbook to compare its information with another source. Thus by the time that I got to lay down, I had a horrible headache and after about an hour, I gave up and continued reading Locke's Second Treatise (Which I have been reading every morning from 4:00 AM to 5:00 AM, since Tuesday. That is how I got through Wealth of Nations back in 2011).

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

hmm, decisions, decisions, decisions. I love variety.

Though it does become difficult when you like different aspects of all three options.

I don't much care for a $28 billion hike on a particular bracket, but on the flip side, I kind of like the idea of reducing or rather increasing the lowest income amount on the bottom bracket like sbane does.

Matt's incorporated hike is more tolerable.

And of course Nappy has no compensating hike, but on the other side doesn't touch the bottom bracket.

That is where I would like some reasons from all three. Why or why not regarding how you treat the lower bracket?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

It is pretty clear in which direction the momentum seems to be flowing here. Matt's got everyone second preferences, but I wonder does he have enough first preferences to survive to when they can come in handy?


Sorry, couldn't resist that obvious joke, considering.

That said, we got three dueling proposals, two of which haven't been offered yet as amendments to the third one which is the current text (unless I missed something)? So is someone going to break the ice, procedurally speaking?

Also, I appreciate Matt's answer and concur in opposing an increast to the top bracket, especially after Duke and I succeeded in getting it lowered back in the good old days. How about the other two, with regards to your approach to the bottom bracket?

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Sponsor Feedback: Friendly
Status: Senators have 24 hours to object.

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The amendment has been adopted.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What is the situation here now?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

How about the bill sponsor himself?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Since people keep talking then I ask unanimous consent to waive the cloture requirement and proceed immediately to a final vote. Senators have 24 hours to object.

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

No objections were entered, though it no longer matters since the bill went quite for so long.


Senators, this bill is now at final vote, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Damn it I hate it when we lose days because one vote is lacking. This ends tomorrow.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Napoleon Tax Cut Bill:

Aye (5): Αverroës Nix, Matt from VT, Napoleon, NC Yankee and sbane
Nay (2): Ben and jdb
Abstain (2): HagridoftheDeep and Snowstalker

Didn't Vote (1): Clarence

With five votes in the affirmative, two in the negative and time having expired, the bill is passed and presented to the President for executive action.

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You'll get your veto override vote, Nappy. Since it was within 72 hours, you don't have to worry about that. I will throw it onto the enourmous pile of IMs I have already sent to Duke today.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Sorry, Duke. Miscounted the nays there for a second.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

There were four nays on there own in the absence of the abstention, but yeah if I would have considered that as well, it would have been another way for me to avoid wasting about ten minutes for nothing on this thread yesterday.

I am rushing too much these days. I doesn't help that I can't log in perpetually on this computer like I would do on mine.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Don't worry, Yankee. I can still count, and I'll coordinate with Duke now that your old age won't let you.

When did you join this game again?