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Bill: GRP manifesto
Details
Submitted by[?]: Great Rutania Party
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: February 4121
Description[?]:
| This is the manifesto on which we shall work upon in the next few years. This manifesto can be scrutinised and debated by everyone. These are the policies we would work to implement as a government |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Current: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Proposed: All banks are privately owned.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Weapon concealment.
Old value:: Any legal weapon may be concealed when carried.
Current: Local governments may set and enforce concealed carry laws.
Proposed: People must first obtain a permit in order to carry concealed weapons.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 21
Current: 26
Proposed: 10
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Current: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Proposed: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The salaries of members of parliament and/or government.
Old value:: Members of parliament and/or government are entitled to a nominal salary only.
Current: Members of parliament and/or government are entitled to a comparatively average salary.
Proposed: Members of parliament and/or government are entitled to a comparatively large salary.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the use of land mines by the army.
Old value:: The use of land mines is prohibited.
Current: The use of land mines is prohibited.
Proposed: The use of land mines is allowed but restricted.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Old value:: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Current: The legality of medicinal cannabis is established by local governments.
Proposed: The medicinal use of cannabis is illegal.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Proposed: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning museum funding.
Old value:: The national government maintains a system of museums nationwide.
Current: The national government provides local governments with the funding to operate museums.
Proposed: The government gives monetary grants to organizations which have established or are looking to establish museums.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change Racial and religious registration of nationals.
Old value:: The government does not require nationals to register their race or religion.
Current: The government does not require nationals to register their race or religion.
Proposed: All nationals are required to register their religion.
Article 11
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Current: Recreational drug use is regulated by local governments.
Proposed: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:52:12, November 01, 2016 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the GRP manifesto |
| Message | We agree somewhat with the GRP on fiscal policies but we won"t support their social policies as Progressive Conservatives and Liberals. Melissa Anderson, Chief Whip,PCLP |
| Date | 21:10:42, November 01, 2016 CET | From |  Democratic Socialist Party of Rutania | To | Debating the GRP manifesto |
| Message | This manifesto shows that the GRP, aside from their xenophobic and militaristic streak, are just like all the other parties in Rutania: absolutely committed to private ownership of capital, fattening their wallets and the wallets of their donors and friends, and against any kind of help for ordinary Rutanians The DSPR are the only real alternative. |
| Date | 23:21:07, November 01, 2016 CET | From | Great Rutania Party | To | Debating the GRP manifesto |
| Message | We accept the conservatives view and the view of the democratic socialist party but obviously we don't share it. We do not intend to strip the ordinary Rutanians of anything at all. We support lowering corpiration tax in favour of higher wages. We support privatisation because we don't want the government and the cabinet to fatten their wallets. We believe in a society where normal people can start successful buisnesses and become rich instead of a dangerous, left wing society of government and then everyone else. |
| Date | 13:05:02, November 02, 2016 CET | From | Socialist People's Party (SPP) | To | Debating the GRP manifesto |
| Message | My party must agree with the DSPR. The GRP doesn't want more opportunity, but more business corruption and less equality. And the idea of making medical cannabis is preposterous, it has many medical values and is only feared because it is classified as a drug. |
| Date | 13:06:03, November 02, 2016 CET | From | Socialist People's Party (SPP) | To | Debating the GRP manifesto |
| Message | The only good thing on this bill is the requirement of a permit. |
| Date | 23:51:00, November 14, 2016 CET | From | Great Rutania Party | To | Debating the GRP manifesto |
| Message | Mr speaker, The SPP are offering no clear statement here! They say we are in favour of more corruption, more inequality etc. Where's the evidence? We want to cut corpiration tax, so what? We want to privatise all banks, so what? The government can be just as corrupt as private companies and you don't have to be a genius to know that. The SPP can rant and rave a out our policies but they work, socialist policies, however don't. They do not bring equality! They bring division, the government then everyone else, in that order. Thank you, Adam Palmstoke, GRP leader and MP. |
| Date | 07:09:49, November 15, 2016 CET | From | Socialist People's Party (SPP) | To | Debating the GRP manifesto |
| Message | That's not my point, what I'm saying is raising the salary will raise government corruption. And you'll just kill more Rutanians by sending them to war. Banning medical cannabis is the worst part, though |
| Date | 18:08:50, November 15, 2016 CET | From | Great Rutania Party | To | Debating the GRP manifesto |
| Message | Medicinal cannabis is basically a doctor who is meant to HELP you give you some thing which in the long term will probably KILL you. A long time ago doctors used to prescribe cigarettes, this is no different. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 98 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 389 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 113 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." - Abraham Joshua Heschel |