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Bill: Health and Sports Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Labour 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: February 2099
Description[?]:
| To promote exercise and sports activities, including finding recruits for our Olympic extreme ironing team, we should fund free sports clubs for children. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The funding of sports clubs.
Old value:: not recorded
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 | 01:34:17, August 10, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | Sports is not important enough to be worthy of national funding. |
| Date | 20:06:02, August 10, 2005 CET | From | United Labour Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | If the health of our children isn't important enough, what is? Children from disadvantaged families should not be excluded from sports clubs because they can't pay. |
| Date | 23:12:06, August 10, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | We're fairly sure the 'clubs' in question are professional sports teams, not your local YMTCA. If it were the Y, we would support. |
| Date | 00:35:21, August 11, 2005 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | That was our understanding as well, permitting local governments to fund stadiums or provide other support for our extreme ironing leagues seems unnecessary but not requiring a ban, thus we have left it to these local governments to decide. |
| Date | 20:31:16, August 11, 2005 CET | From | United Labour Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | Ah, I misunderstood. But we should still have some public sports teams, if only in the eventuality that a team is on the verge of bankruptcy. |
| Date | 04:42:07, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | I refer you to Minister Warran's comments regarding fiscal responsibility; it would be nice, but we need to exercise some self restraint until we have a definate budget surplus. |
| Date | 11:59:58, August 13, 2005 CET | From | United Labour Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | We currently have a surplus of 33,814,024,876 MCR. I don't see why museums and libraries should have funding but sports teams should not. |
| Date | 06:38:14, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Super Socialist II Turbo Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | This is not fair to those citizens that do not participate or enjoy sports. Our party hates sports. |
| Date | 21:42:16, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | "We currently have a surplus of 33,814,024,876 MCR": but what is the conversion from Py (our national currency) to MCR? |
| Date | 12:04:57, August 19, 2005 CET | From | United Labour Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | MCR is our national currency, according to Wouter. @SS2TP: What about funding libraries? Surely that's not fair to those citizens who do not use or enjoy libraries? I'm not talking about funding big-league teams, just a few teams. |
| Date | 18:33:45, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | OOC: that was a joke since we voted a while back to call our currency the Pliny. Py for short. IC: local governments can fund whatever team the wish, and however many they wish. National government should not spend money on it. |
| Date | 22:53:47, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Health and Sports Bill |
| Message | If you would read Minister Warran's recent report, our surplus is based upon a criminally unjust tax code, and creating a fair tax code will put us over 20 million pliny in the red each year. We cannot afford this frivolous spending. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 35 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 41 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 24 |
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| Random quote: "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is." - Bill Clinton |