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Bill: International Trade Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hacia Casa
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: November 3505
Description[?]:
| It is time to put the interests of the Dranish people first, and the interests of the big global corporations second. Dranish jobs deserve protection. Leticia Saldanas MP Leader of the Opposition |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change International trade (this is a default in the absense of a specific free trade agreement or specific trade embargo)
Old value:: The nation does not impose any tariffs or quotas on imports.
Current: The nation imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports, with no tariffs imposed on states which impose no tariffs on our exports.
Proposed: The nation allows for imports, but imposes tariffs and quotas in certain areas.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:35:24, June 24, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the International Trade Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, apparently all the DCL cares for is the privileges of certain sectors of industry, presumably those which are most unionized. The fate of the consumers, which would be hit by higher prices if economic nationalism were introduced, is irrelevant to them. Constance Woodhall MP Member for Magadonia MInister of Trade and Industry |
| Date | 15:22:51, June 24, 2013 CET | From | Hacia Casa | To | Debating the International Trade Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, as communists we want a Dranish economy that is run for the benefit of the ordinary Dranish people. That would benefit both workers and consumers - who are, let us not forget, usually the same people. Leticia Saldanas MP Leader of the Opposition |
| Date | 21:05:35, June 24, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the International Trade Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, if you want an economy run for the benefit of the people, stick with the free market where consumer demands are the most decisive factor. However, I reckon that what Mrs Saldanas imagines is a centrally planned economic dictatorshop where a political elite has absolute power and agitates as the supreme distributor of resources and labor. In this system, workers and consumers would be reduced to cattle at the disposal of fascist politicians and their fanatical drive to control and suppress individual entrepreneurship and self-determination. Constance Woodhall MP Member for Magadonia MInister of Trade and Industry |
| Date | 22:12:48, June 24, 2013 CET | From | Hacia Casa | To | Debating the International Trade Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I request that Constance Woodhall withdraw her suggestion, which she has not made for the first time here, that I and my party are "fascist". This is a blatant and disgusting lie - as she well knows. Leticia Saldanas MP Leader of the Opposition |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 71 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 301 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Treaties will be eligible for deletion if they are more than 50 in-game years old and have no currently ratified members. |
| Random quote: "When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader." - Plato |