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Bill: Anti-Regulation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX
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: August 2182
Description[?]:
| A bill to remove pointless regulation. A stipulation of this bill will see the funds previously used to regulate the trade in exotic animals being donated annually to the Baltusian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (or BSPCA). |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of exotic animals.
Old value:: Everyone may keep exotic animals, but the trade in exotic animals is regulated by the government.
Current: Everyone may keep exotic animals, the trade in exotic animals is unregulated.
Proposed: Everyone may keep exotic animals, the trade in exotic animals is unregulated.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Small farms are encouraged to merge together into larger ones.
Current: Farm size is not regulated.
Proposed: Farm size is not regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:01:18, February 07, 2006 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Anti-Regulation Act |
| Message | ARTICLE 1 Fact: Harming exotic animals when you are going to sell them does not benefit you in any way. Those who sell inferior, damaged animals will quickly find themselves run out of business. Fact: This legislation wastes tax money on regulation of the trade, when the real problem is with the owners of the animals, whose mistreatment of their pets will not be punished by the market. This legislation does not prevent their harm and the money spent on the regulation of this trade would be better used by the BSPCA. ARTCLE 2 Fact: No one seems to have a reason for regulation farm size in the first place. Fact: Encouraging farms to coalesce is forcing small businesses to form into big corporations. Fact: Most market monopolies are created by government intereference where it is not required. This legislation is an excellent example of this. |
| Date | 15:49:01, February 07, 2006 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Alliance | To | Debating the Anti-Regulation Act |
| Message | A big 'no' to yet ANOTHER rebuttal. Why donate the funds to a private charity to do exactly the same work, praytell? |
| Date | 03:22:25, February 08, 2006 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Anti-Regulation Act |
| Message | The government regulates the trade. A pointless cause. The private charity, without the massive support of the tax payers, will be more efficient dollar-for-dollar and helps animals abused by OWNERS, not traders. A worthwhile cause. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 155 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 206 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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