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Bill: Fisherman's Livelihood Act of 2434
Details
Submitted by[?]: Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition)
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: June 2435
Description[?]:
| A bill to restore the livelihood potential to the nation's fishermen and their families. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Commercial fishing regulation.
Old value:: The government establishes fishing quotas.
Current: Local governments can establish fishing quotas
Proposed: There are no limits on the amount of fish that may be caught.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:40:22, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Fisherman's Livelihood Act of 2434 |
| Message | This just allows for over fishing, which destructive to the environment and ultimately affects us. |
| Date | 15:15:30, July 25, 2007 CET | From | One Nation Party | To | Debating the Fisherman's Livelihood Act of 2434 |
| Message | what about the freedoms the CP often spouts? Hypocrytical dont you think? |
| Date | 16:19:02, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Fisherman's Livelihood Act of 2434 |
| Message | DRs agree with CP on this: the short term incentive for individual fishermen to over fish overpowers the longer-term national interest in a sustainable fishing economy. DRs oppose. |
| Date | 18:08:34, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Fisherman's Livelihood Act of 2434 |
| Message | We advocate freedoms that don't substantially harm others. The fact is, over fishing can be so destructive that it can hurt other people and even those that over fish. |
| Date | 19:45:59, July 25, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Fisherman's Livelihood Act of 2434 |
| Message | If they overfish, they lose their jobs. Why would they overfish and risk their life's work? |
| Date | 23:54:39, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Fisherman's Livelihood Act of 2434 |
| Message | Because it has short term effects and unforeseen long term ones. The short term ones are good for the, but eventually they end up putting the entire world ecosystem at stake. |
| Date | 02:58:59, July 26, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Fisherman's Livelihood Act of 2434 |
| Message | That is pure spectulation. |
| Date | 06:47:09, July 26, 2007 CET | From | Party Royale | To | Debating the Fisherman's Livelihood Act of 2434 |
| Message | Our ocean's fish are a common resource, and will therefore have all the problems inherent with any common resource. From an individual point of view, it is best for the fisherman to fish as much as he can. If every fisherman took this view, though, then the fish population would plummet drastically and every fisherman would be hurt. Even free market advocates almost always agree that this is one of the times it's necessary for the government to step in and prevent the wanton destruction of a national resource. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 228 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 336 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 36 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970) |