National Sin Tax Bill

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Nay.  Overly convoluted.

[Bono]

Nay

[jokerman]

What happened to taxing pornography?  I propose one of the Senators make an amendment putting it back into the bill.

[Emsworth]

What happened to taxing pornography?  I propose one of the Senators make an amendment putting it back into the bill.

Pornography is already widely available for free. Taxing it would make free pornography even more pervasive, defeating the purpose of taxing it.

[Jake]

What happened to taxing pornography?  I propose one of the Senators make an amendment putting it back into the bill.

Should we even manage to put that section back in, it would reduce the chances of passing the bill.

[Gabu]

Aye.

[GOP = Terrorists]

Porn should be in as should junk food.

[John Dibble]

Porn should be in as should junk food.

Why not just regulate people's behavior directly and get it over with?

[The Dowager Mod]

Aye.

[ilikeverin]

Porn should be in as should junk food.

Why not just regulate people's behavior directly and get it over with?

Oh, if only that would work...

But, alas, it does not, so I'll just have to force everyone like me so they'll want to be just like me

[MasterJedi]

This amendment has passed.

[MasterJedi]

I hereby open up the final vote on this bill. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

National Sin Tax Act

1. A National Sin Tax shall be levied to provide income for the federal government.

2. The Sin Tax will be set at 2% for cigarettes, alcohol, and chewing tobacco 4% for cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff and other tobacco products and 7% for marijuana and other legalized recreational drugs, users of medical marijuana and other medicinal drugs are exempt from the Sin Tax.

3. This will go into effect immediately upon passage of this bill and will continue until such a time as this bill is repealed or stiken in accordance with other legislation or court rulings.

4. Individual regions may set their own sin taxes as they see fit. The percentage levied may be changed during in the annual budget.

5. The taxes levied in the afformentioned clauses override any current federal sin taxes or other duties on the afformentioned goods unless otherwise exempted by the Senate of Atlasia.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[Jake]

Aye

[CheeseWhiz]

Aye

[Colin]

Aye

[Gabu]

Aye.

[MasterJedi]

This bill has enough votes to pass, Senators now have 24 hours to change their votes.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Nay.

[Peter]

Abstain

[Bono]

Though I had voted here.
Nay ftr.

[MasterJedi]

With 5 Ayes, 2 Nays and 1 Abstenation this bill has passed. I hereby present it to the President for his signiture.

[Ebowed]

While I have some reservations about this bill, I sign it:

x Ebowed

[Sam Spade]

I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but when you say a 2% tax on cigarettes, are we talking about a pack of cigarettes, a carton of cigarettes or a cigarette.  Same goes with alcohol and the like.

My more pertinent question goes with this logic.

The current federal excise tax on cigarettes is 39c per pack.  The average price per cigarettes, as far as I can figure out is roughly $4.00 per pack over the 50 states (some more, some less).  This present tax would produce a revenue of somewhere between 7c to 8c per pack.

However, with the addition Clause 5 of this legislation, the federal excise tax against cigarettes is repealed (unless you want to clarify sin taxes as not being excise taxes, which I simply don't agree).

So, essentially, you've replaced the 39c federal excise tax on cigarettes with a 7c to 8c excise tax on cigarettes.

I haven't looked up the results with alcohol, though I will if anyone cares.

Just some food for thought.

[Ebowed]

I probably should have mentioned this earlier

Probably.