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Bill: Sports Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Noordelijk Bevrijding Front
Status[?]: passed
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 2092
Description[?]:
| We must ensure our people are provided with adequate facilities in their area that are free. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The funding of sports clubs.
Old value:: The government does not fund sports clubs; only private ones are allowed.
Current: The government funds some sports clubs side-by-side with private ones.
Proposed: The government funds some sports clubs side-by-side with private ones.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:25:27, August 07, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Sports Bill |
| Message | So wealthy golfers can use the taxes of hardworking middle-class workers to subsidize their own wasting of our water supply? No. We have better things to do than that. |
| Date | 13:12:48, August 07, 2005 CET | From | Noordelijk Bevrijding Front | To | Debating the Sports Bill |
| Message | No, this means Working class people have access to free sporting facilities that they could otherwise not afford. This should also regenerate poor areas and give under-privelaged children the same oppertunities as other children. Or perhaps you prefer to simply keep the class gap wide Mr .Maroon? |
| Date | 15:25:25, August 07, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Sports Bill |
| Message | It costs $5 to buy a basketball and play on the street. Even if this bill would give poor kids sporting opportunities, it wouldn't help them enrich themselves. There is no class gap. A 'gap' implies that there's something, and then there's nothing, and then there's something else. The demographic data in our country clearly indicates that we have a strong middle class, which makes for a gradient, not a gap. The government's responsibility is to ensure basic rights, not to see whether people have the correct Tennis posture. |
| Date | 15:29:47, August 07, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Sports Bill |
| Message | The ends do not jusfiy the means--if you think they do, we have a specially trained paramilitary force ready to take over the government and execute the leaders of your party. Base location is secret, of course. |
| Date | 18:40:42, August 07, 2005 CET | From | Noordelijk Bevrijding Front | To | Debating the Sports Bill |
| Message | Justify the means b*tch, I'm commander in Chief, I'll secret service your ass. :_) |
| Date | 19:38:12, August 07, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Sports Bill |
| Message | Not when I bring out the commandos based in other countries ;). No, but seriously, working class people have better things (like work, hmm?) to do than be hanging around in sports clubs, so the sports clubs are going to be for the upper-class, while being paid for by everyone. |
| Date | 22:02:53, August 07, 2005 CET | From | Noordelijk Bevrijding Front | To | Debating the Sports Bill |
| Message | We will make sure all people's are equally represented in the clubs. |
| Date | 00:07:44, August 08, 2005 CET | From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Sports Bill |
| Message | Leave them private we say taxpayers should not have their money spent on things like this that they may not even use. Also private companies are far more efficient than government beaurocracies. |
| Date | 02:31:54, August 08, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Sports Bill |
| Message | So should we force poor people into clubs? A poor person who needs to work more may consider his time better spent on working than a leisure-class person would. Just because you make leisure free, the poor still pay an opportunity cost--and getting rid of that opportunity cost would throw us into the Gladiator days of bread and circuses in Ancient Rome. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 48 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 20 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 32 |
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