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Bill: Smaller Government Initiative
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front
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: January 2459
Description[?]:
We must quash the Octopus that Writhes and Threatens to Consume our Freedoms like some Rancorous Abomination. It tries to destroy the Freedoms that made our Nation Great by its Ornery Regulations that are completely unnecessary in the Goal of this Nation to Give Each citizen Freedom and Opportunity and Teach Him and (in some cases) Her the Tenets of Righteousness, Christianity and Moral Fiber. We must Expel the filth-ridden Socialists who ride Foul Cockatrices and Despoil Our Land of its Prosperity by Sowing the seeds of Discord and Idlery and the Devil's Handiwork. As such the following Reforms are Propose to Strike a Bane into the Heart of the Political Power-Mongering Beast of Deviancy and Sodomy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of animals in cosmetics research.
Old value:: The use of animals to test cosmetic products is regulated.
Current: Animals may not be used for testing cosmetics products.
Proposed: The use of animals to test cosmetic products is unregulated.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning genetically modified (GM) crops.
Old value:: Production and selling of GM crops is banned. Research is allowed.
Current: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Proposed: There is no policy concerning GM crops.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
Current: Local governments decide about healthcare policies
Proposed: Health care is entirely private.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards the cloning of human beings.
Old value:: Research in cloning technologies is legal, but regulated.
Current: Research in cloning technologies is not regulated.
Proposed: Research in cloning technologies is not regulated.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The use of animals in medical research.
Old value:: The use of animals in research is subject to basic regulations.
Current: The use of animals in research is subject to basic regulations.
Proposed: There are no restrictions on the use of animals for research.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government. However, the provision of this is not to exceed a certian period of time.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Proposed: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Current: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Proposed: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 15:06:55, September 19, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Jelbanian Party-D.L.J.-D.L.F | To | Debating the Smaller Government Initiative |
Message | We strongly oppose, these are fool proposals, you have no respect for the people of Jelbania! |
Date | 15:12:30, September 19, 2007 CET | From | Drtárék Jelbék Prta | To | Debating the Smaller Government Initiative |
Message | A people who favour small government and capitalism? |
Date | 21:22:03, September 19, 2007 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Smaller Government Initiative |
Message | We will abstain from this bill during the voting process because it deals with too many different areas of policy. |
Date | 09:39:01, September 20, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front | To | Debating the Smaller Government Initiative |
Message | It is you, oh our poor misguided socialist brethren, who have no respect for the people of Jelbania. If you had any respect for the intelligence, righteousness and good-nature of Jelbania's people, you would not support a big government that controls what they say and do. You would trust the people to do what they feel is right rather than go up on your pulpit tell them what they can and can't do. The whole trouble with you socialists is that you have no respect for the people. You just think you know better than the people. You see them as helpless children. There is no respect there. Only vainglorious delusions of supremacy. And that is the seed of tyranny and dictatorship. |
Date | 09:52:08, September 20, 2007 CET | From | Lib-Gov Party-part of W.A-S.U | To | Debating the Smaller Government Initiative |
Message | We'll abstain. If passed, we'll restore the previous bill |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||||
yes | Total Seats: 18 | ||||||
no | Total Seats: 18 | ||||||
abstain |
Total Seats: 64 |
Random fact: Particracy allows you to establish an unelected head of state like a monarch or a president-for-life, but doing this is a bit of a process. First elect a candidate with the name "." to the Head of State position. Then change your law on the "Structure of the executive branch" to "The head of state is hereditary and symbolic; the head of government chairs the cabinet" and change the "formal title of the head of state" to how you want the new head of state's title and name to appear (eg. King Percy XVI). |
Random quote: "I am a conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few." - Benjamin Disraeli |