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Bill: Free Trade Defence Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: War is Peace 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: July 2452
Description[?]:
| This bill punishes countries who restrict trade and encourages those who don't. In the long term this will help lead to a world without barriers. |
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 imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports, with no tariffs imposed on states which impose no tariffs on our exports.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:14:19, September 07, 2007 CET | From |  War is Peace Party | To | Debating the Free Trade Defence Act |
| Message | Note: This bill is in accordance with all treaties we are currently a signatory of. |
| Date | 09:41:51, September 07, 2007 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Free Trade Defence Act |
| Message | Well of course it is, otherwise you would not be able to propose it. Tariffs, while designed to insulate the affected industry, only serves to hurt the overall economy of the nation, since its consumers are now possibly deprived of more variety, lower prices, better quality, and even technology as the higher competition would force domestic industry to concentrate on improvement and innovation. Any economist or modern historian worth their salt will tell you that tariffs are a great way to sink your own society into depression. |
| Date | 10:44:25, September 07, 2007 CET | From | War is Peace Party | To | Debating the Free Trade Defence Act |
| Message | I agree, which is why I am only proposing them if other people do it to us first. |
| Date | 18:36:10, September 07, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Free Trade Defence Act |
| Message | The problem with responding in kind in this scenario is that we punish our own consumers as much as we punish the foreign nations. Sometimes answering wrong with wrong only begets more harm. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 129 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 229 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: The voters enjoy active parties who take upon themselves the initiative to create laws. |
| Random quote: "Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice." - Ayn Rand |