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Bill: Budgetary Rethinking Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Reform Party of Kirlawa
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: July 2640
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The national refugee policy.
Old value:: All refugees are welcome, regardless of their reason, and given aid in integrating them into the country.
Current: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid.
Proposed: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:00:21, September 19, 2008 CET | From | Kirlawan People's Justice Party | To | Debating the Budgetary Rethinking Act |
| Message | Strongly opposed. We feel the proposed change to be the most unwise and irresponsible position on this issue. However, we would like to suggest a compromise that would fulfill part of what the Reform Party might be seeking here. From the bill's title, "Budgetary Rethinking Act", we're inferring that the Reform Party's goal in this bill, is to reduce the government spending that is currently going toward these refugees. Our preferred position on this issue is "Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid." Implementing this would considerably reduce the number of foreigners admitted to our nation, and thereby reduce the total amount of taxpayer money being given to help to integrate them. True refugees fleeing from true persecution would continue to be welcome, and to be successfully integrated into our nation's society; while those who falsely claim to be refugees would be turned away at the border, with the further result that no money will be going to them. By contrast, the currently proposed "All refugees are welcome but no financial aid is given to them", we feel to be the worst possible position on this issue; since what this would lead to, would be the growth of a foreign underclass here, unassimilated and alienated and growing restive, likely leading eventually to domestic strife. This leaves us vulnerable to unnecessary unrest, while helping neither the true refugees nor us native Kirlawans. |
| Date | 08:04:23, September 20, 2008 CET | From | Gluaiseacht Shaoráil DhaonlathachIt | To | Debating the Budgetary Rethinking Act |
| Message | We would like to keep it as it is. |
| Date | 13:48:52, September 20, 2008 CET | From | Reform Party of Kirlawa | To | Debating the Budgetary Rethinking Act |
| Message | Changed. |
| Date | 01:00:17, September 21, 2008 CET | From | Kirlawan People's Justice Party | To | Debating the Budgetary Rethinking Act |
| Message | Thank you! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 362 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 355 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not approve a Cultural Protocol request within the first 48 hours of it being requested. This is in order to give other players a chance to query the proposed changes, if they wish to do so. Moderation may be approached for advice on a proposed change, but any advice proffered should always be understood under the provisio that no final decision will be made until at least 48 hours after the request has been formally submitted for approval. |
| Random quote: "The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality." - Che Guevara |