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Bill: Clean Cars Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian Citizens
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: January 3916
Description[?]:
| We believe the Government of the Federal Republic of Beluzia has done a very good job encouraging travel by collective transport rather than private cars, as the protection of the environment is crucial if we want to protect the individuals that live in it. However, we have an alternative: why don't we rid our nation of contaminating cars? Libertarian Citizens propose to pass an act which will only allow the use of cars which use environmentally friendly fuels. This will make citizens freer on whether they choose public transport or private transport, without a cost for the environment. LC propose to change the law to: Only cars using environmentally friendly fuels are allowed. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning private cars.
Old value:: Private cars are allowed, but people are encouraged to travel collective and tax incentives are provided for cars using environmentally friendly fuels.
Current: Only cars using environmentally friendly fuels are allowed.
Proposed: Only cars using environmentally friendly fuels are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:33:12, September 30, 2015 CET | From | National Freedom Party | To | Debating the Clean Cars Act |
| Message | We reject this surprising proposal by the LC. Such an infringement on the freedom of industry and drivers alike seems like a betrayal of the party's founding principles and even its names. This will hurt our automotive industry and limit options available to consumers. Let the free market decide which products should and should not be on sale, and keep government out of consumer choice. |
| Date | 02:53:26, October 01, 2015 CET | From | Libertarian Citizens | To | Debating the Clean Cars Act |
| Message | May we remind the National Freedom Party that one's freedom ends where someone else's freedom begins. By allowing the sale of environmentally threatening vehicles for the sake of fortune making and in the name of the free market, we are preventing our citizens from having the choice of green transport: it simply can't compete against cheaper, dirtier, irresponsible options. |
| Date | 02:59:54, October 01, 2015 CET | From | National Freedom Party | To | Debating the Clean Cars Act |
| Message | Already this government makes allocations for its uncompetitiveness. The LC fails, time and time again, to accurately read the policy it tries to repeal and replace. The current policy reads as follows: Private cars are allowed, but people are encouraged to travel collective and tax incentives are provided for cars using environmentally friendly fuels. This government has for years on end sponsored environmentally friendly forms of transportation through government subsidies, the type of support the LC fails to recognize in its proposal. The choice is there, and it is clear that that is in fact what the LC are interested in doing, not regulating industry, but regulating choice, limiting choice, and eventually doing away with it altogether. The Libertarian Citizen's Party is a complete betrayal to its name and any notion of individual liberty or personal responsibility. |
| Date | 03:11:06, October 01, 2015 CET | From | National Freedom Party | To | Debating the Clean Cars Act |
| Message | We would like to know how the LCs justify this proposal when its clear that the government is already making up for the uncompetitiveness of clean fuel. This act would not provide more incentive and would only limit modes of transportation. |
| Date | 03:12:31, October 01, 2015 CET | From | Libertarian Citizens | To | Debating the Clean Cars Act |
| Message | Libertarian Citizens are free citizens. When freedom only applies to corporations and magnates, most citizens suffer. A restriction on how much we can damage the environment is a new set of rules, a challenge for the industry to be competitive and offer citizens their best products given the circumstances! Once again, we understand the nerves. They walked slowly, because they were walking far. |
| Date | 03:20:34, October 01, 2015 CET | From | National Freedom Party | To | Debating the Clean Cars Act |
| Message | What business does government have steering industry at all? Corporations serve the general public and are held accountable not by regulatory agencies but by consumers, this is basic economic policy and the NFP are surprised that the LC fail to grasp this concept when its name suggests freedom and liberty above all. Liberty cannot be compromised, not by a foot, not by a mile. The environment is already accounted for in government subsidies given to peoples who do chose to buy an ecologically friendly vehicle. We simply do not understand how the LC can be so short-sighted and so contradictory to principles of freedom, personal responsibility, and the free market. We suggest a name like Socialist Citizens or Citizens Against Choice would be much more appropriate for our friends in the minority. |
| Date | 13:19:09, October 01, 2015 CET | From | United People's Party | To | Debating the Clean Cars Act |
| Message | We congratulate the LP for their environmental concerns. While we have issues as to how low income families could afford this change we hope to be able to support future environmentally friendly legislature. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 299 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 87 |
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