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Bill: Illegal Gambling Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rightist 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: April 2065
Description[?]:
Gambling increases crime rates. Therefor, it is our responsibility to eliminate it whenever possible.
We are proposing to make Gambling Illegal so that our families can stay together and lower, not only gambling addictions but to reduce the crime rate in the country.
However, this bill will not effect non-profit lotteries. Hopefully this doesn't get abused. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Current: Gambling is legal, but only in private homes and casinos with special licences.
Proposed: Gambling is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:15:35, June 07, 2005 CET |
From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Illegal Gambling Act | | Message | Support: gambling is a form of exploitation of the poor by the rich. Games are rigged in the casion's favour.
One suggestion: could you make a non-profit lottery legal? |
| Date | 16:25:39, June 08, 2005 CET |
From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Illegal Gambling Act | | Message | I'll move this to a vote since most of the parties have stated if they were for or against this bill. |
| Date | 21:09:29, June 08, 2005 CET |
From | Patriot Party | To | Debating the Illegal Gambling Act | | Message | I won't give one! LOL. Besides that, you didn't allow for non-profit lottery in your proposal. That was why I voted against it. :p |
| Date | 21:10:41, June 08, 2005 CET |
From | Patriot Party | To | Debating the Illegal Gambling Act | | Message | And before you said you did, you said "public owned lottery" There is a big difference between non profit and public owned. |
| Date | 22:02:01, June 08, 2005 CET |
From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Illegal Gambling Act | | Message | You never raised that point in debate, and as you can see, I was in favour of non-profit lotteries. You're just making excuses now. |
| Date | 22:08:50, June 08, 2005 CET |
From | Patriot Party | To | Debating the Illegal Gambling Act | | Message | Nope. Taking advantage of what you were saying in the last bill. Why should I be the one to bring it up when it was your bill and you never made mention of it? |
| Date | 22:29:41, June 08, 2005 CET |
From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Illegal Gambling Act | | Message | You just said "keep gambling to where it is". If you had an issue with the bill, you should have voiced it and I would have tried to negotiate. Also, the proceeds from a national lottery would go straight back to the community, so it is arguable not for profit.
I want my apology! |
| Date | 22:33:17, June 08, 2005 CET |
From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Illegal Gambling Act | | Message | But a national lotteyr can only be non-profit, which you apparently support. Apologise please!
Just to prematurely steal your thunder, the Tribal Council has passed this bill. |
| Date | 04:49:49, June 09, 2005 CET |
From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Illegal Gambling Act | | Message | 3 Right Wing Parties and 2 socialist parties. Yea that's an odd group alright! :p |
| Date | 22:26:53, June 09, 2005 CET |
From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Illegal Gambling Act | | Message | More to the point, it's four parties with at least some authoritarian/conservative leanings and one (usually) liberal party.
But the DSP has expressed some concern, and has requested a slight compromise. So not all that odd. |
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| Vote |
Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 214 |
| no | Total Seats: 68 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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