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Bill: People's rights to gamble, or not.
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Unified Lodamun 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: May 2423
Description[?]:
| Local governments should have the ability to forbid gamblind in their precinct. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is legal across the nation, no regulation whatsoever.
Current: Gambling is illegal unless taking place in a licensed casino.
Proposed: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:05:46, June 30, 2007 CET |
From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the People's rights to gamble, or not. | | Message | There are a number of regions in our Kingdome who do not want to have gambling activities occur in their neighborhoods. Local governments should have the right to govern themselves. |
| Date | 23:38:23, July 01, 2007 CET |
From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the People's rights to gamble, or not. | | Message | I'm basing it in reality. How does the governemt tax us? Our income is reported to the IRS with forms. Gambling hsa no such forms, therefore its proceeds are not reported to the IRS. Obviously professional gamblers are watched closer, and audited more, but gambling itself for every person is not subject to taxation unless the private citezen chooses to report their winnings. I suppose it is considerably easier for the IRS to find gambling winnings if those winnings are paid for as a check, and while this happens sometis at race tracks however as a general rule gambling winnings are paid for in cash.
I base my findings on reality, not some mumbo jumbo from your party. |
| Date | 07:59:27, July 02, 2007 CET |
From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the People's rights to gamble, or not. | | Message | It won't, that's not what this bill is about. However, certainly localities could vote that no gambling could be done in their precinct unless it was done with chips and not with real money, and then only being able to cash out by giving their chips back to the casino, and then being forced to claim their winnings. |
| Date | 08:34:25, July 02, 2007 CET |
From | United Republics Party | To | Debating the People's rights to gamble, or not. | | Message | that's idiotic. if there really is a tax problem here (which there isn't) how would creating a patchwork of laws across the 5 kingdoms solve this? Kregon could force everyone into some bizzare tax system and andalay could let everyone go without paying tax??? |
| Date | 22:13:23, July 02, 2007 CET |
From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the People's rights to gamble, or not. | | Message | As is, most everyone is going without paying tax anyhow. However as stated earlier, this bill has nothing to do with tax. The URP dosn't want to discuss the merits or lack thereof of this bill, and it does give local governmental control which he supposedly champions, so lets see how he votes. |
| Date | 01:43:46, July 04, 2007 CET |
From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the People's rights to gamble, or not. | | Message | so, when your personal party page describes you as extreme small government, and you vote against big government bills at all costs, unless someone proposes them that you don't like, that's not championing small government?? |
| Date | 13:26:30, July 04, 2007 CET |
From | Democrats | To | Debating the People's rights to gamble, or not. | | Message | The small/big government refers to the role of the state. The Unitary/federalist bar refers to devolution between central and local government. |
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Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 127 |
| no | Total Seats: 451 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 21 |
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