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Bill: Alcoholic Beverages Act of 3595
Details
Submitted by[?]: Beluzian Social Democracy 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 3596
Description[?]:
| ESTABLISHES a new law regarding the acquisition, sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages to adults. Favourable arguments: 1. This bill will stimulate economic growth and bring strategic advances in industry, small businesses, transportation infrastructure and farming by creating demand to alcoholic beverages. 2. Although not yet perfect, the civil liberties ensured by this law are considered a great leap considering the old, retroactive and forbidding legislation. 3. This will seemly reduce the black-market activity related to the contraband of alcoholic goods. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards alcoholic beverages.
Old value:: The sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages is outlawed.
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:40:01, December 22, 2013 CET | From | Beluzian Liberty Party | To | Debating the Alcoholic Beverages Act of 3595 |
| Message | We believe that outlawing consumption by minors creates an atmosphere of taboo around the consumption of alcohol that leads to over-consumption and eventual long term chronic abuse. |
| Date | 22:57:37, December 22, 2013 CET | From | Beluzian Social Democracy Party | To | Debating the Alcoholic Beverages Act of 3595 |
| Message | I find your argument pertinent. However, might I point that the age at which a person is considered an adult in our country is 15 years old. At that age, most students are entering high school and, accordingly to the law, aren't to be considered children. What we can do, as a countermeasure, is develop a school program (flyers, ads, classes...) to reinforce the possible maliciousness and addictiveness of alcohol. Thus, restraining the possibly consequential over-consumption and tabooing. |
| Date | 14:19:22, December 23, 2013 CET | From | Encarta Party | To | Debating the Alcoholic Beverages Act of 3595 |
| Message | We believe that outlawing alcohol entirely, as the so called party of "Liberty" has done, wrecks an entire sector of the economy, while creating more crime. We agree with this this proposal and see no reason it shouldn't be enacted. |
| Date | 03:06:50, December 24, 2013 CET | From | Beluzian Liberty Party | To | Debating the Alcoholic Beverages Act of 3595 |
| Message | (OOC: I must have been consuming alcohol when I proposed the last bill, I am pretty sure I was going for removing the ban on underage drinking... damn LOL) I have seen the error of my ways... I vote yes on this with an eye on removing the underage ban in the coming days... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 651 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 99 |
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