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Bill: Common Sense Environmental Protection Policy Act #7
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei
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: March 2489
Description[?]:
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning private cars.
Old value:: Only cars using environmentally friendly fuels are allowed.
Current: There are no regulations on the ownership of private cars.
Proposed: Private cars are allowed, but people are encouraged to travel collective and tax incentives are provided for cars using environmentally friendly fuels.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:03:46, November 19, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Common Sense Environmental Protection Policy Act #7 |
| Message | Why replace eco-friendly cars with eco-unfriendly ones? This makes no sense. |
| Date | 16:48:32, November 19, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the Common Sense Environmental Protection Policy Act #7 |
| Message | Drang, you have MISREAD the bill. It does absolutely no such thing. Rather, it simply says that the indvidual citizen has the FREEDOM to CHOOSE (like a woman has for an abortion....haha) to drive a gas-guzzling SUV . Nevertheless, this bill gives TAX CREDITS and economic incentives to motorists so that they can FREELY choose to buy the eco-friendly cars. Think about it: if you are a poor motorist, and a gas-guzzling SUV costs TWICE the price b/c the electric car is subsidized, wouldn't the LOGICAL choice be to buy the eco-friendly car and get the tax credit??? Therefore, this bill is simply an extension of LIKATONIAN FREEDOM!!! |
| Date | 18:38:00, November 19, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Workers' Party and CTUL List | To | Debating the Common Sense Environmental Protection Policy Act #7 |
| Message | We don't suppose that there is anywhere a Likatonian whose live depends on whether or not they are allowed to drive a gas-guzzler, unlike any woman whose life might be turned upside-down and inside-out by a disruptive pregnancy. |
| Date | 21:22:33, November 19, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Common Sense Environmental Protection Policy Act #7 |
| Message | So - you're giving people the chance to do exactly what we said? So... we misread nothing. Why replace the eco-friendly with the carbon-spewing monster? |
| Date | 05:58:30, November 20, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the Common Sense Environmental Protection Policy Act #7 |
| Message | No, it is not exact what you said b/c the bill gives ECONOMIC incentives to citizens to drive eco-friendly cars. cf. http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/north.html Morale: PERSUASION is better than Force!!! |
| Date | 05:58:55, November 20, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the Common Sense Environmental Protection Policy Act #7 |
| Message | No, it is not exact what you said b/c the bill gives ECONOMIC incentives to citizens to drive eco-friendly cars. cf. http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/north.html Morale: PERSUASION is better than Force!!! |
| Date | 06:44:46, November 20, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Common Sense Environmental Protection Policy Act #7 |
| Message | No. It isn't. Because people don't always respond to persuasion. And that's where the dreamland version of economy that the CWFP espouses falls down. People are selfish. |
| Date | 14:05:31, November 20, 2007 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Common Sense Environmental Protection Policy Act #7 |
| Message | Exactly. People are selfish, so if it is in their best economic interests to behave in a way, they will do so. If that were not so, there would be no bribery, and we know that is not the case (nudge nudge wink wink). |
| Date | 15:46:36, November 20, 2007 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Common Sense Environmental Protection Policy Act #7 |
| Message | Immeressence Inc 'hear' what the AMRLP are 'saying', and are always happy to 'help' our comrades in the right of the 'Convocation'.... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 376 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 290 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Selucia is Particracy's modern take on Ancient Rome, located on the continent of Majatra. |
| Random quote: "I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it." - Niccolo Machiavelli |