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Bill: Wasted dollars
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia
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: November 2269
Description[?]:
| Let big business clean up its own messes! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government-sponsored recycling programs.
Old value:: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Current: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Proposed: The government funds recycling facilities but enforces mandatory recycling for industry only.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Waste disposal responsibility.
Old value:: The government is responsible for waste disposal.
Current: Private companies are responsible for disposing of their own waste. The government disposes of residential waste.
Proposed: Waste disposal is left entirely to the private sector but is regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:39:40, August 12, 2006 CET | From | Party of Cigolism | To | Debating the Wasted dollars |
| Message | Why regulate it? |
| Date | 19:30:05, August 12, 2006 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Wasted dollars |
| Message | Because I don't want raw sewage and chicken guts dumped in the rivers. |
| Date | 22:37:29, August 12, 2006 CET | From | Party of Cigolism | To | Debating the Wasted dollars |
| Message | How very noble of you! |
| Date | 00:19:30, August 13, 2006 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Wasted dollars |
| Message | Of course, your speaking to a Noble. |
| Date | 12:08:00, August 13, 2006 CET | From | Feline Defense Front | To | Debating the Wasted dollars |
| Message | Big business can not be trusted in matters pitting the environment versus the "bottom line". This bill is an emphatic no for the FDF. |
| Date | 12:58:32, August 13, 2006 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Wasted dollars |
| Message | Its not big business we are trusting, it is big husiness we are DEMANDING clean up these messes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 70 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 130 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: There are two countries based on Egypt in the game. Cobura is based on modern Egypt with a retro twist, while Hawu Mumenhes is based on Ancient Egypt with a modernist twist. |
| Random quote: "It all came from there." - Lech Walesa (pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell) |