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Bill: Pollution Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dorvish Popular Front
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: March 2058
Description[?]:
| This bill has two proposals - to end mandatory recycling and end the tyrannical restrictions upon Dorvikian industry. We dont believe anyone should be forced to recycle, it should be a personal thing. Many people in Dorvik are highly skeptical of the so-called environmental issues and so why should they waste their time just to placate you hippies! Furthermore, Dorvikian businesses are being beat in the international marketplace by countries that have less restrictions and therefore can make the same quality goods cheaper and easier. It is time for this crazy environmental time to end! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of pollution in industry.
Old value:: The government enforces highly restrictive industrial pollution standards.
Current: The government enforces highly restrictive industrial pollution standards.
Proposed: The government enforces moderate pollution restrictions.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government-sponsored recycling programs.
Old value:: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Current: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Proposed: The government funds recycling facilities for public use.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:24:02, May 24, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Pollution Freedom Act |
| Message | We agree. |
| Date | 18:24:03, May 24, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Pollution Freedom Act |
| Message | We agree. |
| Date | 21:13:47, May 24, 2005 CET | From | Dorvik National Party | To | Debating the Pollution Freedom Act |
| Message | I agree with proposal 2 but not 1. |
| Date | 22:43:35, May 24, 2005 CET | From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Pollution Freedom Act |
| Message | Why is that? |
| Date | 13:17:00, May 25, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Pollution Freedom Act |
| Message | Pollution is a cost to society, just as the thing that a company produces is a benefit to society. It makes sense to regulate pollution, up until the point where the benefit from the good is greater than the harm from pollution--i.e. a middle ground. Getting rid of all pollution is neither possible, nor desireable--far from it, just ask our forefathers who lived in harmony with the world and died from contagious diseases at the age of 35. |
| Date | 16:48:23, May 25, 2005 CET | From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Pollution Freedom Act |
| Message | Well said Maroon Party. Furthermore, if we continue this stranglehold on businesses, there will be no pollution in Dorvik simply because there is no industry! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 43 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 29 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 23 |
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| Random quote: "When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'" - Martin Luther King Jr. |