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Bill: Gambling
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Union Party
Status[?]: passed
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: August 2154
Description[?]:
| Changing the gambling laws. Whee! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is legal across the nation, no regulation whatsoever.
Current: Gambling is illegal.
Proposed: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:27:28, December 05, 2005 CET | From | People's Union Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | Some convinced religious people dislike gambling, and some people beleive that gambling encourages other, more illegal forms of self-expression, like prostitution, gang warfare, drugs, etc. I think I have a proposal that would satisfy both haters of gambling and lovers of gambling. We leave the matter to the local governments. That would allow regions who dislike gambling to outlaw it, and regions who like gambling to allow it with no restrictions. Citizens in outlawed regions could simply go to the nearest betting region to gamble their hearts out. Plus, it would make us more "Small-government" ish, which would boost our rating in the view of the people. Any opinions? Comments? |
| Date | 05:37:10, December 05, 2005 CET | From | National Farmers' Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | I completely disagree with the concept of Soviets; I'd rather vote for banning gambling. |
| Date | 00:36:45, December 06, 2005 CET | From | People's Union Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | Then why not vote for this now, then propose the banning of gambling? It could turn out to be a win-win situation. |
| Date | 00:59:32, December 06, 2005 CET | From | National Farmers' Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | Gambling once was banned, but the National Farmers' Party legalised it. I merely saying I'd rather vote for banning gambling than creating more powers to Soviets. |
| Date | 04:46:52, December 08, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Ecology Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | To National Farmers' Party: You say you promote family values... yet you encourage gambling? do i smell a hypocrite?... |
| Date | 04:27:03, December 11, 2005 CET | From | National Farmers' Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | Surely, it's up to the individual if they gamble or not; why should the government be involved? Gambling doesn't break up families, but the gambler does. If a parent would gamble and endanger the state of his/her family, then it just shows how little commitment/respect the parent gives the family; overall, even if gambling was illegal, since the parent has so little commitment/respect/concern for the family, it'll weaken anyway with divorce most likely resulting. |
| Date | 08:17:45, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Ecology Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | Still, the gambler's children will be much more likley to end up gambling as well, if that's what they grew up with. Gambleing most definitely affects Family Values. |
| Date | 08:42:57, December 11, 2005 CET | From | National Farmers' Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | A good reason to introduce parent testing, before they're allowed to have children. |
| Date | 08:46:02, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Ecology Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | That is completely ridiculous to test parents, it's inhibiting nature. |
| Date | 15:19:12, December 11, 2005 CET | From | People's Union Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | And it would make it very easy to abuse that system to make it so only people the government wanted could have children. I beleive that would be way too much control over our people. |
| Date | 17:19:44, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Ecology Party | To | Debating the Gambling |
| Message | Well spoken People's Union Party. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 482 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 268 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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