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Bill: Gunpowder and Betting Control Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nationalist 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: October 2143
Description[?]:
| Fireworks, Gambling, and Prostitution all come under this proposed Act. The Nationalist Feel that Fireworks are a too extreme object to be left in the hands of un-trained Peoples. Gambling should be only held in Casinos, or Private Homes, Poker i believe should still be played on every street corner. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards fireworks.
Old value:: The sale of fireworks is unregulated, anyone may buy them.
Current: Local governments determine fireworks laws.
Proposed: Professionals may run licensed fireworks shows, small fireworks are legal to the general public.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is legal across the nation, no regulation whatsoever.
Current: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Proposed: Gambling is legal, but only in private homes and casinos with special licences.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:32:38, November 18, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Alcoholic Party II | To | Debating the Gunpowder and Betting Control Act |
| Message | Poker is a form of gambling. Call yourself nationalists? As for the right to bear firearms and the right to lay hookers, those are fundamental rights which should not be removed from sensible Rutanians. Religious people don't have to associate with harlots, and fireworkphobics don't have to attend firework shows or play with fireworks. |
| Date | 19:36:47, November 18, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Gunpowder and Betting Control Act |
| Message | Nah. |
| Date | 19:47:38, November 18, 2005 CET | From |  RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Gunpowder and Betting Control Act |
| Message | We are for the first and the second articles, however we are against the third. We would appreciate it if you could split the third article off to another bill. |
| Date | 01:31:36, November 19, 2005 CET | From | Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Gunpowder and Betting Control Act |
| Message | Im willing to do that. Firework to all people of the state is stupid. Large fire works are gonna blow the hands of Johnny Come Lately. Gambling is not made illegal. just not everywhere. and Poker i feel will not fall into this Bill as it is our National Past Time. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 201 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 339 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 59 |
| Random fact: It is not allowed to call more than 5 elections in 5 game years in a nation. The default sanction for a player persisting in the early election tactic will be a seat reset. |
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