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Bill: International Aid Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Shuggoth Progressive 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: December 2180
Description[?]:
| This bill changes our international aid policy as follows: It removes the requirement tying aid to trading rights. And aid is only offered as part of a disaster relief package. Holding another nation at gunpoint to trade with us is not good for our international image, and is not a morally good thing to do. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights.
Current: The government gives moderate aid to countries in need.
Proposed: The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:40:21, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the International Aid Act |
| Message | Why not give high level of aid, without asking for trading rights. |
| Date | 09:22:37, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the International Aid Act |
| Message | This is a step in your direction LGP, and more likely to gain majority support than a jump of the magnitude you are suggesting. |
| Date | 15:13:19, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Redneck Party | To | Debating the International Aid Act |
| Message | No aid at all. Let them fend for themselves. |
| Date | 15:21:35, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Unionist Party | To | Debating the International Aid Act |
| Message | What about poor Luthorians? Why are we proposing spending their tax dollars on foreigners? |
| Date | 16:24:33, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Shuggoth Progressive Party | To | Debating the International Aid Act |
| Message | We can not currently afford to give a high level of aid, due to the plundering of the treasury and the gutting of our tax initiative by "certain parties" during the last government. Why offer disaster relief at all? One, because it is the moral thing to do. Two, because we really don't need refugees attempting to cross our borders illegally desperate for aid. Three, because should a disaster hit our fair Empire (God forbid!), we would want other nations to render aid unto us! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 506 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 129 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 115 |
| Random fact: The majority of nations in Particracy are "Culturally Protected" with an established cultural background. Only the "Culturally Open" nations are not bound by the rules surrounding culture. The Cultural Protocols Index should be consulted for more information about the cultural situation of each nation. |
| Random quote: “Can anyone imagine a more perverse idea than forcing faithful Hosians like me to give away my money to enable irresponsible teenage girls to kill off their children because they were too drunk to use a damn condom?" - Dr. Francesca dos Santos, former Dranian politician |