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Bill: The Import Tariff
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Front
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: November 2604
Description[?]:
| Import tariffs don't make sense. Basically, an import tariff or quota might help protect our domestic businesses, but it results in higher costs of stuff for everyone else. It operates in favor of businesses and hurts consumers, and since businesses mostly have to buy stuff anyway, it hurts businesses to an extent as well, so in the end no one benefits, except maybe businesses. Look at it this way: let's say there is an import tax on computers. Now, computers from other countries are going to cost more. That's going to drive up the prices of computers; the supply is restricted and so the market clearing price rises. So now everyone has to pay more for computers just so our domestic businesses are benefited. BUT WAIT! Other businesses besides computer ones probably need computers! So now, we're driving up costs of computers for ALL the consumers and ALL the business except the computer business. You guys are all socialist parties right? Socialism is anti-business, and pro-people, right? So why protectionist measures? Those *might* help businesses and hurt everyone (and I say might because, as I said above, businesses have to buy stuff too, and with prices higher it hurts them). |
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 allows for imports, but imposes protectionist tariffs and quotas on all 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 | 16:15:16, July 11, 2008 CET | From |  Trigunia Return! Party | To | Debating the The Import Tariff |
| Message | Honorable Secretariat of Sovet Narodny Kommissaro, Fellow Commissars and Distinguished Guests, The Trigunia Return! Party must vote AGAINST this piece of legislation simply because by withdrawing these still mature protections of our economy we will not be able to show the true strength of will and ingenuity of the Trigunian people. Let us not dismiss the issue! We have trouble at home getting the economy organized so how can we possibly allow for such a terrible circumstance! We cannot! We must not and the TRP will not allow it. Let us protect our jobs before they crumble to the imperialistic tide of foreign markets. Trigunia MUST not fail! Trigunia will NOT fail! |
| Date | 19:53:51, July 11, 2008 CET | From | Kommunisticheskiy Komitet Trotskyest | To | Debating the The Import Tariff |
| Message | I GOT NEWS FOR YOU. the people set the prices not companys in this nation. |
| Date | 04:13:14, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Trigunia Return! Party | To | Debating the The Import Tariff |
| Message | Nay, tovarisch, 'tis neither. 'Tis the market - 'tis the blood, sweat and tears of our Trigunian brothers who arduously toil, restlessly until death casts to them the end of their business. With these new measures, their businesses would be volatile to the politics of the Republic and not to the sanity of the economy. |
| Date | 16:26:03, July 15, 2008 CET | From | National Front | To | Debating the The Import Tariff |
| Message | I'm pretty sure I clearly showed in the bill description why import tariffs help one industry and hurt all other industries and the consumers. That's too high a price to pay just to protect one of our industries. Driving up the price for everyone just isn't right. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 225 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 129 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 201 |
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