Taxes, Responsibility and Common Sense

Day 2,083, 07:24 • Published in Ireland Pakistan • by Frodo Tea Baggins

Well let's face it congress is meant to be a job of responsibility. I'm not here to debate the tax models of whether lowering tax would be beneficial but rather to explain how some, like myself reach decisions on proposals.

The recent late debate on lowering the income tax is missing something. Some of us are aware of how Ireland finances things but I'll explain for those that don't. Military funding comes from using the money market to produce funds to allow it to operate therefore taxes do not affect it, it is a seperate entity. What taxes do do is provide 100% of our MPP funding. Currently our tax levels allow for 6 MPPs per month. A seventh is possible in a good month.

Now currently the treasury shows a slight surplus. The reason for this is after the MUFC period and CUA we had a broke treasury and forgien relations on the poor side. Also including previous thefts the country was more or less broke. The surplus came not from having an higher tax rate but a short period where we operated with fewer MPPs until we could regain our place in the rest of the world. Now all of this is coming together we have the MPPs we want again and have a slight bit of extra money without any increases to the public.

Now a current check shows we currently have 6 MPPs with just losing the Bulgarian one, which if we renew returns us to 7, this is our target area. Overspending our small savings would be a poor plan because you never know when we may need that extra bump. In short we have returned to our sustainable level of taxes versus MPPs. Now as much as everyone would love to see lower income tax, here is the problem. Where are the numbers to show we can maintain our current balance of spending?

Simply put I'm not against lowering the income tax if it can be shown as to not effect our MPPs. A small increase to the VAT in exchange if it can be proven? Are wages higher that will make up the difference? Show me something, some reason I can support it without disrupting the budget. I think that's fair, however it has not been produced, so in good faith I've had to vote these recent proposals down.

In conclusion, I'm not against a change but I've had to vote against this simply because the procedure to allow such change wasn't given nor proven, as a congressman that's my job. Better luck next time.


Kaptain Kidd