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Bill: Fair Trade Initiative
Details
Submitted by[?]: Lutte Féministe de Libération
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill proposes the withdrawal from a treaty. It will require half of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2181
Description[?]:
| I'm whole-heartedly against this sort of treaty which leaves our nations businesses open to exploitation by foreign labor. Not only does this Treaty tie our nation's hands, but it leaves us prey to the unseemlier side of world economics. I only oppose the tariff part, but I'm sure that other parties must oppose something else in this. I will do almost anything to see this treaty repealed. PM me if you need our party's vote in exchange for support in repealing this. I plan to make this a long term project, and will not cease until it's overturned. |
Proposals
Article 1
Withdraw from the The Treaty of Meriath.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:58:50, January 26, 2006 CET | From | Devout Ecologists Party | To | Debating the Fair Trade Initiative |
| Message | I really don't see why you are making such a big fuss about this. I see it as a good agreement, and what you say about exploitation by foreign labor.. where do you get that from, if I may ask? It just asks that we impose no tarrifs on the trade between our two countries. I don't see that as a problem at all, rather a sign of friendship with the neighbour. You want to get rid of a Treaty with our neighbour, which we because of that have good agreements with, and want to undermine that relationship? Really, what are you thinking by such an unfriendly act against our neighbours, against more than good agreements, against a relation with another nation? |
| Date | 01:20:17, January 27, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Fair Trade Initiative |
| Message | I like our mysterious neighbor. I like them a lot. But I don't think this treaty is good for us when it limits us to free trade policies not just with our neighbors but with any other nation with free trade policies, many of them right-wing free trade hell holes. We can sign a new treaty afterwards without the free trade part. And I hardly think it's fair to claim I'm making a "fuss." It's just a policy I'm interested in reversing. It's no more a fuss than your obsession with banning anything that might possibly harm the environment. |
| Date | 04:48:18, January 27, 2006 CET | From |  Front Canrillaise | To | Debating the Fair Trade Initiative |
| Message | Supported. |
| Date | 05:10:11, January 27, 2006 CET | From | Devout Ecologists Party | To | Debating the Fair Trade Initiative |
| Message | Okay you got a good point about the fuss part, I withdraw that part then. But about free trade, it says: Additionally, to prevent either nation becoming a customs avoidance zone for the other, it is agreed that neither nation should impose restrictive tarriffs or quotas upon international trade. The laws of each nation shall therefore be restricted to the following categories. And those categories are three in number, thus disallowing you to pick "The nation allows for imports, but imposes protectionist tariffs and quotas on all imports." Do you want to push the international trade towards that then? |
| Date | 00:35:21, January 28, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Fair Trade Initiative |
| Message | Yes, our industry sucks and I want to build a much stronger Rildanor. We can hardly do that if we have no industry to speak of and our people won't buy the goods made by adequately treated labor here at home when they can buy crap from wacky laissez-faire states abroad that basically enslave their people. |
| Date | 03:50:39, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Fair Trade Initiative |
| Message | Any others? |
| Date | 03:34:07, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Fair Trade Initiative |
| Message | Remember, we're not saying we don't like our neighbors, just withdrawing from a restrictive treaty. Afterwards, I think we ought to send our FA Minister over there to make amends. And thanks to 23CC for voting yes. We may finally pass this bad boy. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 382 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 71 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 47 |
| Random fact: Moderation reserves the discretion to declare RP laws invalid if the players supporting them are doing so in an excessively confrontational way. |
| Random quote: "In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Pastor Martin Niemoller |