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Bill: Anti-Imperialist Aid Act
Details
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: July 5200
Description[?]:
| Using foreign aid to further national trade interests through threats and dependency is in all honesty diabolical. Our foreign aid should be given with a genuine goal to support and strenghten poorer nations and oppressed peoples, not push them further into poverty or oppress them ourself. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights.
Current: The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries.
Proposed: The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:12:03, October 23, 2022 CET | From |  Frisinnade folkpartiet (FFP) | To | Debating the Anti-Imperialist Aid Act |
| Message | Foreign aid is taxpayer money, and should only be spent with the expectation of a fair return. Handing funds over with no strings attached will simply create a culture of dependency. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 141 | |
| no | Total Seats: 80 | |
| abstain |
Total Seats: 179 |
| Random fact: Players have a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to be accurate when communicating the rules to other players. Any player who manipulatively misleads another player about the rules will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say 'No' to war, for one does not create human society on mounds of corpses." - Louis Lecoin |