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Bill: Ecology & Agricultural Repeal Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Neo-Imperial Peoples Vanguard Party (IA)
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: September 2618
Description[?]:
The purpose of this legislation is to repeal the restrictive laws and allow decentralization of national authority back to local governments. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the ownership of domestic animals as pets.
Old value:: People must register domestic animals with the national government.
Current: People must register domestic animals with the local government.
Proposed: People must register domestic animals with the local government.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: Strategic crops are produced on State owned farms. All other produce is left to the Private sector.
Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning private cars.
Old value:: Only cars using environmentally friendly fuels are allowed.
Current: Private cars are allowed, but people are encouraged to travel collective and tax incentives are provided for cars using environmentally friendly fuels.
Proposed: There are no regulations on the ownership of private cars.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Waste disposal responsibility.
Old value:: The government is responsible for waste disposal.
Current: Waste disposal is left entirely to the private sector but is regulated.
Proposed: It is the responsibility of local governments to decide on waste disposal regulation.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of wild animals as pets.
Old value:: The ownership of wild animals as pets is banned.
Current: The ownership of wild animals as pets is banned.
Proposed: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 20:22:52, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Neo-Imperial Peoples Vanguard Party (IA) | To | Debating the Ecology & Agricultural Repeal Act |
Message | The honorable Senator Commander Ferdinand Foch stood up from his seat among the other members of his party: Mr. Speaker, It is disgusting how socialist and restrictive this country is becoming. We have to draw a line in the sand. Any member of the Terra Federation or Imperial Alliance that votes against this should be ashamed to stand with socialist scum. Communism is seeping back into our country again. The time of collectivism and anti-capitalism, where a person was assumed part of a group rather than an individual that deserves recognition for their efforts, is creeping upon this nation. We have to do battle and I'll be damned if that battle goes any further than these chambers. I yield. |
Date | 21:30:39, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Solidarity (IA) | To | Debating the Ecology & Agricultural Repeal Act |
Message | Mr Speaker, It suits the purposes of some to confuse regulation and State guidance with "socialism". We will not be brow-beaten by those for whom "Atlas Shrugged" is the Bible! |
Date | 23:05:45, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Union (IA) | To | Debating the Ecology & Agricultural Repeal Act |
Message | Mr. Speaker, As was said earlier this is an international Empire. As such, we do need some common laws to keep order from Duchy to Duchy, to Colony to Colony. By having the government responsible for the destruction of waste, we ensure that the pollution in our lands is kept down and that the people are able to live free and healthy lives. By asking our car manufactures to make cleaner cares, we do not just make our Empire healthier, but make the competition between them more intense as they rush to have more environmental friendly vehicles. We are growing on the international stage again, especially after the loss of the throne in Alduria. These days are not very friendly to monarchist, as we have watched several of the greatest in Terra fall in the past few years. They are turning to the mother of Empires again for leadership and guidance, and for support, because so they might begin to come to us for aid. By doing so, we need more food than local governments and farmers can grow on their own. For that reason it is to the responsibility of the Empire to make sure that we have plenty of farms in production. They are good for capitalism, for it makes the local farmers have to worker harder and compete more in order to do better against the government farms. In Conclusion, it is better for our Empire and the people for the current laws to exist as they are. They are needed to keep the people healthy and safe, along with allowing us to aid our allies and friends in these dark days. I yield. |
Date | 23:19:48, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Neo-Imperial Peoples Vanguard Party (IA) | To | Debating the Ecology & Agricultural Repeal Act |
Message | The honorable Representative Andrew Ryan stood up from his seat among the other members of his party: Mr. Speaker, Should not a farm be owned by a man who works upon it? Should not he be allowed the sweat of his brow with the profit he should demand to reap? Do not take from the farmer what they should have to themselves. That is socialism! This is going a step further than "state guidance". I don't confuse state guidance with over centralization either, which this Act was, a travesty that must be reversed to save this country now. I yield. |
Date | 23:26:22, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Union (IA) | To | Debating the Ecology & Agricultural Repeal Act |
Message | Mr. Speaker, The farm part can be looked at as a good plan, however you still leave out the other parts of this bill which forces me to say nay to it. I yield. |
Date | 23:36:58, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Neo-Imperial Peoples Vanguard Party (IA) | To | Debating the Ecology & Agricultural Repeal Act |
Message | The honorable Representative Andrew Ryan stood up from his seat among the other members of his party: Mr. Speaker, Should not a farm be owned by a man who works upon it? Should not he be allowed the sweat of his brow with the profit he should demand to reap? Do not take from the farmer what they should have to themselves. That is socialism! This is going a step further than "state guidance". I don't confuse state guidance with over centralization either, which this Act was, a travesty that must be reversed to save this country now. I yield. |
Date | 23:38:46, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Neo-Imperial Peoples Vanguard Party (IA) | To | Debating the Ecology & Agricultural Repeal Act |
Message | OOC: Sorry about the double post... |
Date | 23:53:35, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Neo-Imperial Peoples Vanguard Party (IA) | To | Debating the Ecology & Agricultural Repeal Act |
Message | The honorable Representative Andrew Ryan stood up from his seat among the other members of his party, noticeably irritated from having to get up again: Mr. Speaker, I really wish not to repeat myself. I said that I did not confuse state guidance with over centralization when I helped write this legislation. Therefore, any argument for the overbearing weight of a state that may not need such burden shouldn't hold it. We have never had a garbage problem up to now with local government in control, that is also true about starvation even during war. How many times did the populace starve during the War or the Revolution? Not one time, I believe before, it was said we are a rich country. We are and our farmers make it so our system of capitalism and private ownership give free enterprise the ability to better make profit and prosper. That same argument can be said for how we encouraged the growth of the car market, we didn't do a thing. Now our environment is lush and we are fighting to save it as if it were in trouble, it is not, let me let you all know that secret. I had a friend that had owned three wild lions, they were his livelihood within the circus he ran, they are gone and he lost his job. The circus he worked with no longer had the star attraction and now it faces bankruptcy. The ban on keeping wild animals is needless. That goes as well for domesticated animals who WE KNOW are not dangerous, DO NOT need to be regulated by this government personally, the paperwork alone would bury Fort William in bureaucratic clot. We should be focusing on real concerns, like saving the factories of Yodukan, like our party's Economic Reform Act that could have fixed it, yet was shot down by this parliament. It is disgusting how infiltrating liberals and communists from the KCCP can find this Empire with such impunity. I yield. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes | Total Seats: 111 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 64 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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