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Bill: No Foreign Aid
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperial 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 2290
Description[?]:
| In our continued effort to lower the expenditures of the government we propose the ending of all foreign aid. |
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 gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Proposed: The government never offers international aid.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:21:33, September 26, 2006 CET | From | Spiritualists' National Union | To | Debating the No Foreign Aid |
| Message | This proposal is beneath contempt. |
| Date | 09:30:52, September 27, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the No Foreign Aid |
| Message | "Tied aid" can bolster our internation arms sales (just ask the UK) and it would be foolish to remove this option the government has to support struggling Lutheran companies. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 50 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 47 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 3 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick.'" - Mikhail Bakunin |