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Bill: Gambling Rights II
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Democrats of Rutania
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: February 2036
Description[?]:
| Capitalism is dependent upon granting investors freedom to engage in risky ventures; thus gambling should be a national right. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Current: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Proposed: Gambling is legal across the nation, no regulation whatsoever.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From |  RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Gambling Rights II |
| Message | The Rutania Social Democrat Party will not support this bill. |
| Date | not recorded | From | New Democrats of Rutania | To | Debating the Gambling Rights II |
| Message | Why not? |
| Date | not recorded | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Gambling Rights II |
| Message | Basically, what does a casino do? It ruins many and makes a select few rich, which is directly opposed to all my party stands for. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Libertarian Alcoholic Par-tay | To | Debating the Gambling Rights II |
| Message | But nobody forces anybody else to gamble. It's not as if compulsory gambling is being proposed. Those who do not wish to run the risks involved are perfectly within their right to abstain from gambling. However, don't those who want to live dangerously have the right to do as they please with their money? Also, should those with casino-management expertise be denied the right to make a living via the trade which they know and love? |
| Date | not recorded | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Gambling Rights II |
| Message | Everyone knows that advertisements and commercials can make someone do what he or she actually doesn't want to do, gambling in this case. I would say yes to this proposal if it would include strict government regulations on gambling and a ban on gambling advertisements. |
| Date | not recorded | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Gambling Rights II |
| Message | I forgot to mention that those government regulations should serve to make sure that all gambling is fair, in other words: that there is at least a small chance of winning. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Libertarian Alcoholic Par-tay | To | Debating the Gambling Rights II |
| Message | Advertisments may have some persuasive power in the way which you describe, but they do not have as much power as laws in swaying decisions. A persuasive advertisment is suggestive, but a law is mandatory, and thus imposing a gambling ban would restrict civil liberties far more than a laissez-faire attitude towards gambling. As far as "a small chance of winning" is concerned, of course fraudulent activity is criminal, and in compliance with this, casino owners would presumably already be obliged to tell the truth about the odds of their machines and activites. |
| Date | not recorded | From | New Democrats of Rutania | To | Debating the Gambling Rights II |
| Message | "Basically, what does a casino do? It ruins many and makes a select few rich, which is directly opposed to all my party stands for." Your party stands against individual choice? Give Rutanian citizens more credit, Social Democrats-- they can decide for themselves whether they gamble or not in the face of persuasive advertisements. Your anti-democratic stances show little faith in Rutania's citizens, and it has the New Democrat party quite concerned. |
| Date | not recorded | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Gambling Rights II |
| Message | My party does not stand against individual choice, I never said it did. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 25 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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