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Bill: Smaller Government Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian 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: December 2143
Description[?]:
| The Libertarian Party feels the government has gotten involved in too many areas that need not concern it. Withdrawal from these areas will save money and allow this huge government machine to reduce in size, albeit slightly. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards alcoholic beverages.
Old value:: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased only from licensed sales outlets, and can only be available to adults.
Current: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased only from licensed sales outlets, and can only be available to adults.
Proposed: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased and consumed anywhere, but only by adults.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: There is a state monopoly on prostitution.
Current: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Proposed: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Current: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:21:41, November 17, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Smaller Government Bill |
| Message | What a person does to or with their own body should be no concern of government. If in so doing that person causes a nuisance of him/herself there are plenty of laws to control them. |
| Date | 03:56:49, November 18, 2005 CET | From |  First Socialist Party | To | Debating the Smaller Government Bill |
| Message | It when it hurts other people that we are concerned, and recreational drug use has been proven to increase the amount of violence in society. Sorry, but hell no on number three. Also, stores that sell alcohol must be licensed otherwise there may be some untrustworthy people that will sell to children. So hell no on number one as well. |
| Date | 05:18:45, November 18, 2005 CET | From | Peoples Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Smaller Government Bill |
| Message | I dont care what people do to there bodies, ill vote yes on the drugs so long the stepulation that it cant be consumed in the work place...safty reasons. Ill vote no on the prostitution unless the stipulation that if the state gives up ownership that there is a committee that ensures that all the 'ladies' and or 'men' get tested on a regular basis. I agree that alcohol needs to be out of the hands of childern, but im also aware that if they want it they will get it...therefore we are willing to talk on this and add stipulations to this one as well. |
| Date | 16:59:43, November 18, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Smaller Government Bill |
| Message | Un/fortunately game mechanics do not allow for any extra stipulations, the options we have are limited. |
| Date | 19:36:20, November 18, 2005 CET | From | Peoples Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Smaller Government Bill |
| Message | True, but adding it for future reference would be a good thing. (ooc: Besides i bet we could give the idea to a Mod) |
| Date | 08:24:41, November 19, 2005 CET | From | First Socialist Party | To | Debating the Smaller Government Bill |
| Message | We urge the Communist Party to vote no on the basis that it is the LIbertarian party proposing it. |
| Date | 21:53:25, November 19, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Smaller Government Bill |
| Message | Ahh the prinicples of the SPH come out, it is not whether a bill is right or wrong, it is not whether it is good for the people or not it is who has proposed it! A Socialist party who cares more about the proposer of a bill than the people! |
| Date | 00:52:27, November 20, 2005 CET | From | Democratic-Republican Party | To | Debating the Smaller Government Bill |
| Message | The Futurist Party has three responses to each article in the bill: 1. We actually have no problem with this part of the bill. 2. The Futurist Party, in the interest of preventing the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, would require a provision for testing before allowing this to become a private industry. 3. These drugs are awful and do horrible things to people's bodies. While we agree that they have the right to do so, they have no right to put others at risk by using these drugs without any regulation. Therefore, we must vote no on this measure. |
| Date | 21:03:50, November 20, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Smaller Government Bill |
| Message | Okay I will put in some stipulations. (ooc although I am not sure how the game mechanics will allow for such) |
| Date | 01:19:48, November 21, 2005 CET | From | Peoples Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Smaller Government Bill |
| Message | Ill vote for it with the stepulations. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 107 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 142 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In general, role-play requires the consent of all players. |
| Random quote: "Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society." - Franklin D. Roosevelt |