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Bill: Lex Caecia de Teloniis
Details
Submitted by[?]: Factio Republicana Socialistica
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 4394
Description[?]:
| Caecian Law on Tariffs Senators, "Free trade" is the rallying cry of consumerism and unrestricted capitalist accumulation. Free trade, its proponents argue, is a vehicle for economic efficiency, which is nothing but an euphemism for the accumulation of profit, ignoring the moral dimension in favor of unlimited greed. We in the Republican Party believe that economics should not be divorced from morality. In our quest for an ever higher GDP and limitless growth, we seem to have forgotten that economic choices have moral consequences. Not that we are arguing against profit on its own. It is perfectly natural for one to seek to improve one's lot in life. But this improvement must not come at the expense of others. What the consumer sees is the attractive packaging and the cheap price, but remains blissfully unaware of the dreadful conditions in which these cheap products were made. It is only when the products are made locally that we may have any idea of the conditions in which they were produced. Otherwise we only get glimpses of the slave labor and sweatshop conditions that international media sometimes reveals, without challenging our pursuit for ever higher profits and amoral economic growth. We therefore call for the Republic to immediately introduce high tariffs on all products produced outside Selucia, allowing us to develop a moral economy and end this vicious obsession with unrestricted growth. Robertus Caecius Senator |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change International trade (this is a default in the absense of a specific free trade agreement or specific trade embargo)
Old value:: The nation imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports, with no tariffs imposed on states which impose no tariffs on our exports.
Current: The nation allows for imports, but imposes tariffs and quotas in certain areas.
Proposed: The nation allows for imports, but imposes protectionist tariffs and quotas on all imports.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:10:37, May 14, 2018 CET | From | Novus Partis Rexisti | To | Debating the Lex Caecia de Teloniis |
| Message | For once, I agree with my friends in the Factio Republicana. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 452 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 242 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 56 |
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