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Bill: Freedom of Opportunity Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Reform Coalition (FRP)
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: April 2043
Description[?]:
| Gambling should be legalized to stimulate the economy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is illegal.
Current: Gambling is legal, but only in private homes and casinos with special licences.
Proposed: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From |  Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Freedom of Opportunity Act |
| Message | Gambling can revitalize a city or town that is having economic difficulty. This Bill will allow regions to decide whether they want to allow gambling institutions to exist in their areas. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Opportunity Act |
| Message | Gambling will also allow crime to establish a legal manner in which to launder the profits of illegal enterprise. Crime, like ecologies, does not respect borders, and so will impact more than just the community that chooses to legalize gambling. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Freedom of Opportunity Act |
| Message | Have you been to Las Vegas? Every casino is owned by a corporation not a group of mobsters, maybe you shouldn't watch so many mafia films. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Opportunity Act |
| Message | Where is this 'Las Vegas' you speak of? Either way, perhaps you should talk to law enforcement officials rather than your corporate backers. And like many bills before parliament, this has already been sufficiently debated in the Relax Gambling Laws bill. Please refer to that discussion if necessary. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Freedom of Opportunity Act |
| Message | Well, regardless of whether this bill has come up before, times change and so do seats. This bill is up now, and the FRP is open to discussion about the topic of gambling. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the Freedom of Opportunity Act |
| Message | We support, but note that the RCP unsuccessfully brought this issue to vote in the past. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 34 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 66 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi |