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Bill: OOC: Small and Big Government?
Details
Submitted by[?]: ƒortenohƒiv (ACN)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2949
Description[?]:
| I've been playing this game for two years come September, and I still haven't figured out what defines "small government" and "big government." Can someone fill me in? |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:33:36, June 05, 2010 CET | From |  King's Hope Party (ACN) | To | Debating the OOC: Small and Big Government? |
| Message | Well. In American politics Big Government is the government grabbing controll of things. For instance; Cap-and-Trade is considered big government. Taxing the rich more then the poor can be considered big government because it is discouraging people from being rich (this is called marxism). Making a law that people can not worship Budah is considered big government. Regulating how much stock you can buy and sell in one year is considered big government. Basically, anything that makes people loose some freedom is considered big government in America. We are very carefull with who touches our liberty. Even Socialised Health Care is considered big government. Why? Because it is destroying a lot of buisness for private healthcare facilities and it is making people dependent on the government. Small government is Capitalism. It is letting the people fend for themselves and letting them make a living for themselves. It is giving the people many freedoms and defending liberties like the right to bear arms. These are just a few examples. I will be glad to help you if you need more:] Again, those are American examples. We are rooted in capitalism and many freedoms. I'm sure Spain, France, Russia, UK, Ireland, and Australia all have diffrent examples. But I know your from America, so I gave you our examples (although I don't know any other way it could be). To sum it up, Small government=Many freedoms and liberties to the people and giving them many rights Big Government= Something that limits the rights of people and how much money they can make and such. Kind of like a Communist or Socialist Eutpoia. ~Hope~ |
| Date | 18:56:27, June 05, 2010 CET | From | ƒortenohƒiv (ACN) | To | Debating the OOC: Small and Big Government? |
| Message | That doesn't help that much... I try to make it big government, but it says I'm small gov. |
| Date | 20:40:58, June 05, 2010 CET | From | Humanist Alliance | To | Debating the OOC: Small and Big Government? |
| Message | I don't consider Health Care a kind of oppresion at all. Anyway, some concepts are a bit vague in the game, when we aprove some resolutions concerning some personal liberties I don't know if we are movi9ng towards progresive or toward non-restrictive. And in spite of allowing the local goverments to decide most things, we are all "unitarists". |
| Date | 22:43:42, June 05, 2010 CET | From | King's Hope Party (ACN) | To | Debating the OOC: Small and Big Government? |
| Message | That is why I said "American" examples. But I have to admit, you are right about the concepts of the game. ~Hope~ |
| Date | 12:30:32, June 06, 2010 CET | From | Humanist Alliance | To | Debating the OOC: Small and Big Government? |
| Message | Ok, I get what you meant. |
| Date | 21:47:42, June 06, 2010 CET | From | King's Hope Party (ACN) | To | Debating the OOC: Small and Big Government? |
| Message | It's funny how people voted no against this for no reason haha. In my entire time of being here, we have only voted yes on something 3 times. ~Hope~ |
| Date | 12:18:09, June 07, 2010 CET | From | Humanist Alliance | To | Debating the OOC: Small and Big Government? |
| Message | I abstained because it's not an actual law but an exchange of points of view, a kind of feedback |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 188 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 73 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 40 |
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