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Bill: waste
Details
Submitted by[?]: Paraplu party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2362
Description[?]:
| This will provide more jobs for the peeps. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Waste disposal responsibility.
Old value:: The government is responsible for waste disposal.
Current: It is the responsibility of local governments to decide on waste disposal regulation.
Proposed: Waste disposal is left entirely to the private sector but is regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:34:40, February 15, 2007 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the waste |
| Message | "This will provide more jobs for the peeps." How? The government employs people to dispose of waste. If we cut that, then they lose their jobs, probably to be picked up by the expanded private waste disposal industry, so its a zero net benefit. |
| Date | 11:49:48, February 15, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the waste |
| Message | Hell no! |
| Date | 23:56:51, February 15, 2007 CET | From | Paraplu party | To | Debating the waste |
| Message | wrong. This will cause more trash buisnessess to open up, making more jobs. |
| Date | 02:06:50, February 16, 2007 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the waste |
| Message | "This will cause more trash buisnessess to open up, making more jobs." But if we don't manage trash any more, the people the government currently hires to take care of waste disposal will lose their jobs. Thus, as we have layoffs combined with job creation, there's no real benefit. |
| Date | 00:38:49, February 19, 2007 CET | From | Paraplu party | To | Debating the waste |
| Message | They can get jobs at the new places rather esily as they are experienced. |
| Date | 01:30:44, February 19, 2007 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the waste |
| Message | No shit. WE've explained that about three times now. How does that create (net) new jobs though? You're just suggesting we kill a bunch of old jobs which will be replaced by a bunch of new jobs in the private sector. Where's the NET benefit? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 25 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 148 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 17 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "Radical left-wing ideologies must be stamped out." - Franklin McCarthy, former Solentian politician |