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Bill: Environmental Simplicity Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Citizen's Progressive Party
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: August 2443
Description[?]:
| This bill will eliminate the hassle of Industrial pollution and waste laws by eliminating them. Sure, we could go through the hassle of making complicated laws that try to decrease the burden on industry, but that is simply not needed. Why make such a hassle for us, the lawmakers, and them, the industry, when we can simply get RID of all the hassle? It's win-win. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of pollution in industry.
Old value:: The government enforces moderate pollution restrictions.
Current: The government enforces highly restrictive industrial pollution standards.
Proposed: Industrial pollution is not regulated by the government.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government-sponsored recycling programs.
Old value:: The government funds recycling facilities but enforces mandatory recycling for industry only.
Current: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Proposed: There is no national policy regarding recycled garbage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:19:01, August 16, 2007 CET | From |  We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Environmental Simplicity Act |
| Message | Your entire argument is facetious. Industrial pollution laws are in place to stop industrial pollution, removing those laws increases said pollution it does not remove said pollution. Just because something is not regulated does not make it non-existant. |
| Date | 00:24:30, August 17, 2007 CET | From | Wealth and Prosperity Party | To | Debating the Environmental Simplicity Act |
| Message | The market can regulate itself in this regard. |
| Date | 09:01:47, August 17, 2007 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Environmental Simplicity Act |
| Message | But the market is inherently designed to maximise profit. As any form of self regulation requires that all companies within the market are required to agree upon regulations, something which won't happen due to the nature of market competition, the market is inherently incapable of self regulation without outside interference. Because of this, the only way to make a fair "playing field" for all operators to work within is for the government to set regulations within which the market can compete. Pollution restriction, being inherently expensive when compared to no restrictions, would be the first thing the market would remove in order to maximise profit yields. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 225 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 175 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Real life-life nationalities, cultures or ethnicities should not be referenced in Particracy (eg. "German"). |
| Random quote: "In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Pastor Martin Niemoller |