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Bill: Socialist Manifesto for November 4460
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Hutorian Party Of Socialists
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: March 4459
Description[?]:
| It’s time for change and this is the manifesto for love not hate! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Current: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The policy with respect to nuclear weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Current: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, produce or store nuclear weaponry.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Current: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons if victory is not feasibile by other means.
Proposed: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Current: Abortion is allowed during the first trimester.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Regulation of advertising of substances classified as addictive and harmful (if general advertising by companies is permitted and sale of the addictive/harmful products is allowed).
Old value:: Advertising is banned.
Current: Advertising is restricted and has to carry strong warning messages.
Proposed: Advertising is legal and unregulated.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is only allowed in private homes and clubs.
Current: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in places of employment, with the exception of places that primarily serve liquor.
Proposed: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in places of employment, with the exception of places that primarily serve liquor.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 15
Current: 9
Proposed: 25
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 2
Current: 0
Proposed: 0
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 30
Current: 27
Proposed: 40
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Current: The government encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Proposed: The government sets compulsory quotas for hiring women, minorities and marginalized groups.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:16:25, September 22, 2018 CET | From | Neoliberal Alliance | To | Debating the Socialist Manifesto for November 4460 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, I find it mildly amusing that a supposedly leftist party is advocating for the deregulation of advertising of substances classified as harmful. That's not very socialist, is it? Aiden Stafford MP for Constantine Centre Finance Spokesperson for the Free Democrats |
| Date | 00:35:46, September 23, 2018 CET | From | The Enlightenment Party | To | Debating the Socialist Manifesto for November 4460 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Articles 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, and 9 in your bills are not only morally wrong, but also unreasonable and simply idiotic for reasons which I will explain in order below. I recommend you read closely: perhaps you will learn a thing or two: 1) Abortion - This is against the tenants of the Luthori Religion and the beliefs of our people. All that will come of this is civil unrest, population decline, and the loss of faith of the people in our right to rule them. 2) Deregulation of Advertisement of Dangerous Substances: Mr Aiden Stafford says it best. Not only should our people be adequately informed about the danger inherent in various drugs, but it goes against your socialist manifesto to deregulate such things. 5) Taxing Essential Goods: Why on Terra would you even consider placing taxes on things required to sustain human life!? Surely, you must, as a self proclaimed "Socialist," realize that your job is to HELP the poor and downtrodden, not tax them into oblivion. If you are going to help the oppressed, do it right. 7&8) Nuclear Warfare: The closer I read your legislation, I realize that you have no real idea what it is you are talking about. The vast nuclear arsenal of Hutori is NOT meant to be used tactically in warfare. Our Nuclear arsenal is DETERRENT. Without it, our Fascist and Communist enemies from abroad would surely be able to strike us without fear of absolute destruction. They do not attack us now because they know if they did they would be obliterated. This foolish footnote in an ill-planned bill you took a few seconds to create will result in war without end with our former colonies and rival empires. 9) This Article is not socialist, it is neo-marxist and postmodernist. Simply think what the results of this bill would be to our workplace efficiency and economic strength! If you require 50/50 men and women in your job, with 40 positions available and 800 women and 90 men apply, you will simply result in a workplace with few qualified people. We must maintain as close to a meritocracy in our workplaces as we can in order to maintain an economy strong enough to keep our poor from falling into destitution and absolute poverty. Anybody with a head on his shoulders can see immediately how blatantly foolish this proposal is. I call for every sitting MP to vote down this bill with the greatest haste, and for my friends who have voted for the bill to change their vote immediately. -Christopher Hitchens |
| Date | 08:07:00, September 23, 2018 CET | From | The Hutorian Party Of Socialists | To | Debating the Socialist Manifesto for November 4460 |
| Message | It’s all free will. The taxes are on the rich not the poor. In fact I’m taking the taxes away from the goods |
| Date | 20:19:28, September 23, 2018 CET | From | The Enlightenment Party | To | Debating the Socialist Manifesto for November 4460 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The fact that you only half explained one of the things I was criticizing demonstrates the utter worthlessness of your bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 65 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 110 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| 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: "It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." - Winston Churchill |