We are working on a brand new version of the game! If you want to stay informed, read our blog and register for our mailing list.
Bill: Protection of Internal industry Act.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vox Popularis Imperator
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 2438
Description[?]:
| We suggest protective acts being taken in order to protect the country's Internal industries from outside slave industries. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change International trade (this is a default in the absense of a specific free trade agreement or specific trade embargo)
Old value:: The nation does not impose any tariffs or quotas on imports.
Current: The nation imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports, with no tariffs imposed on states which impose no tariffs on our exports.
Proposed: The nation allows for imports, but imposes protectionist tariffs and quotas on all imports.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:33:22, August 01, 2007 CET | From |  Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Protection of Internal industry Act. |
| Message | In arguing against this bill, let me cite some examples from the debate over the "North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) between the United States, Mexico, and Canada on the Planet Earth. Well, it is an ABOMINATION that that treaty led to the outsourcing of hundeds of thousands manufacturing jobs from the U.S. and Canada to Mexico where the workers work for $2 an hour as opposed to Americans who work for $25 an hour. (1) However, it resulted in a Net GAIN of American domestic jobs in IMPORTING/EXPORTING Factories (i.e. the people that deliver the cars to the showroom) that yielded salaries 18% HIGHER than the previous manufacturing jobs. (2) Since the Automakers were able to cut costs ASTRONOMICALLY from the wage shift, the prices of cars dropped substantially. According to Economics 101. when the price of a commodity falls, consumer demand rises. When Consumer Demand rises, the Employer increases production and builds more Showrooms to sell cars thus hiring more salesmen that get paid exorbitantly high commissions. (3) In conclusion, people complained that when the computer that we are both typing on now to play this game was invented, it would cost millions of workers to lose their jobs. This is true in the SHORT-term, but whenever technology expands, jobs are created in more industries that pay higher salaries and wages (i.e. rise of Silicon Valley and .Com companies etc.). Nevertheless, being sympathetic to the plight of workers, the CWFP will VIGOROUSLY support Free Trade agreements that are conditoned on Workers' Rights, Human RIghts, and the Environment. In other words, as the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in the U.S.A.,, Howard Dean, says: "Ford Motor Co. should have a RIGHT to build a factory in Mexico to be more productive, but that does NOT mean that the UAW (United Autoworkers) doesn't have a RIGHT to go down there and organize the Mexicans." Thank you. |
| Date | 09:14:13, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Militaristic Party | To | Debating the Protection of Internal industry Act. |
| Message | I strongly support free trades. |
subscribe to this discussion - unsubscribe
Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 304 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 366 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow role-play that seems to belong to the world of fantasy, science fiction and futuristic speculation. |
| Random quote: "The liberal state is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building." - Benito Mussolini |