Grain Tax Proposal - Read and vote YES
Leroy Bloodshed
Current Tax:
5% Employment 5% Import
Proposed Tax:
0% Employment 20% Import
Benefits from changes:
1) INCOME TAX: Land skilled workers are currently the lowest paid workers in our nation. With roughly 40 active land skilled workers, that amounts to 4 NIS our government collects in taxs a day (based off the average worker pay of 2 NIS). Ask yourself this question: "Is that money needed more in the national treasury or in the pockets of those land skill workers who are just trying to survive?"
2) IMPORT TAX: Raising import taxs by 15% to 20% means our nation will collect .2 NIS of every 1 NIS of business foreign grain companies are doing in our country (instead of .05 NIS). These foreign companies can more than afford this low tax increase. Right now the cheapest grain is selling for .36 NIS (.342 base + .018 tax) Even if the foreign companies pass this tax increase on to consumers, it will only raise prices to .41 NIS (.342 base + .068 tax)
Fellow congressmen, I ask that you vote yes, YES for land skill labor tax relief, YES for our nation to collect taxs that we are missing out on that foriegn companies can afford. Please, vote YES as its the best for our country and our citizens.
Thank you,
Leroy Bloodshed (N District Congressman)
Comments
You are right in my wheelhouse my friend 🙂
I propose 1% and 15%, because I believe we should collect SOME minimal tax on everything. I would be inclined to support a bill like this over the current tax rate, however.
you cannot have 0% tax!
Amendment to my proposal:
the income tax set at 1% instead of 0% (due to system minimum requirement)
mother always said "every penny counts" 😃
I am sorry Leroy. If it had been a simply income tax thing, I would have said yes in a heartbeat. However I can not support import tax being raised when Israel still has high grain prices... increasing the import tax will only push already high prices even higher
No reason to apologize Buzzy 🙂
We are experiencing by far the cheapest food prices in our countries history. Taxs haven't pushed the grain prices higher in the past, company greed is the culprit. The byproduct of their greed for so long was Q1 food selling for 1.5+ NIS, not to mention Q2 and Q3.
Foreign companies can easily absorb the tax increase. Instead of our nation collecting these funds, these foreign companies are sticking it into their already fat wallets, at our grain industry and land workers expense 🙁
I can not vote yes simply because I don't want to see prices going back up while I'm working for 1nis a day. Sorry. I just feel there are many Israelis that need the cheap food prices.
That said this is why I fully believe you belong in congress. I love the article with the proposal so that this could be talked out. I hope that more congressmen do this so we can make informed decisions. It's regrettable that we disagree on this issue.
how about creating a governmental grain company lvl 2 in eUSA and then lowering the import tax to 0 while raising the income to 99%?