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Bill: Civil Defense
Details
Submitted by[?]: Minarchist Party
Status[?]: defeated
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 2671
Description[?]:
| Local authorities should be responsible for building and maintaining shelters. They better know how to care for their communities than our enlarged national government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Current: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Proposed: Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining shelters.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:44:14, November 19, 2008 CET | From | Selucian Home and Hearth | To | Debating the Civil Defense |
| Message | Shelters should be standardized for ease of use and maintenance. Furthermore, national government has more foreign affairs knowledge and military testing expertise, so it will know best what kind of shelters will be most effective. Dealing with the bureaucracy of regulating local authorities' efforts will waste money and time. We do not support this bill. |
| Date | 16:36:13, November 20, 2008 CET | From | Minarchist Party | To | Debating the Civil Defense |
| Message | A standardized system is horribly impersonal to the needs of each locality. Let the national government send an annual list of recommendations to the local authorities. And you yourself oppose dealing with the bureaucracy. National governments have larger bureaucracies that constantly harass local authorities' efforts. This is for the safety, and liberty, of the people. |
| Date | 19:43:06, November 20, 2008 CET | From | Free Radical Party | To | Debating the Civil Defense |
| Message | We hesitate to side with the minarchists on this one. Localization of these shelters would be more suitable to each region, however, the money will be the only problem. Since certain regions may not have enough funds to build adequate shelters, those citizens will be at a disadvantage. |
| Date | 20:32:30, November 20, 2008 CET | From | Minarchist Party | To | Debating the Civil Defense |
| Message | Besides the fact that poorer regions often have less people in them and are of less value to an enemy because of their lack of population and wealth, I would note that this means each locality can raise and lower taxes as necessary to maintain them. And the reason certain regions may not have enough funds to build them is because of a strong central government that restricts the growth of an economy. |
| Date | 01:43:39, November 22, 2008 CET | From | Selucian Party of Social Democrats | To | Debating the Civil Defense |
| Message | We are opposed. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 169 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 250 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 81 |
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