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Bill: Resolution to Withdraw from the BFTA
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kalopian Ethnikistiko Komma
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes the withdrawal from a treaty. It will require half of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2597
Description[?]:
| The nation of Barmenistan is no longer a signatory to the Barmenistan Free Trade Agreement. Why should we open our ports to them when they will not open theirs to us? |
Proposals
Article 1
Withdraw from the Barmenistan Free Trade Agreement.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:05:10, June 26, 2008 CET | From | Kalopian Ethnikistiko Komma | To | Debating the Resolution to Withdraw from the BFTA |
| Message | Why does the QLP support staying in a treaty that opens our markets to Barmenistan, but not Barmenistan's markets to us? This doesn't make any sense. |
| Date | 00:27:30, June 27, 2008 CET | From | Quasi-Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Resolution to Withdraw from the BFTA |
| Message | It is more efficient for us to keep open trade with the country than to place inefficient tariffs on another country because they may or may not do so to us. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 180 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 126 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 189 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln |