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Bill: Miltary Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Party of Telamon
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: May 2302
Description[?]:
| This act will cut subsides to companies because Telamon only uses its military for defense and does not need to be in an arms race. It also builds shelters in case a natural diaster strikes and disarms Telamon of nuclear weapons that we will never use. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining shelters.
Current: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Proposed: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: Defence industries are privately owned but subsidised by the state.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Article 3
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 produce or store nuclear weaponry for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:10:47, October 19, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Traditionalist Party | To | Debating the Miltary Reform Act |
| Message | We must have the capability to paricipate in a war or an arms race at any time, however. We should probably begin actually arming ourselves, especially our far off maritime claims, due to the fact that, despite our inability to believe it, Terra is full of extremist organizations with the intent of the overthrowing of peaceful democracies. |
| Date | 23:29:08, October 19, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Miltary Reform Act |
| Message | Also, we don't want corporations influcing governments to start wars so that they can get more contracts Having a large military also means high taxation and less money for education and social services. |
| Date | 00:38:00, October 20, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Royalist Party | To | Debating the Miltary Reform Act |
| Message | We'd be in favour of Articles 1 and 3, but Article 2 we think, if it should move, should move towards state ownership, not away from it. |
| Date | 17:53:22, October 20, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Labour Party | To | Debating the Miltary Reform Act |
| Message | I agree with TRP. The state should control defence industries. |
| Date | 20:26:26, October 20, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Miltary Reform Act |
| Message | I agree only with article 1. I could not support articles 2 or 3. |
| Date | 23:31:38, October 20, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Miltary Reform Act |
| Message | State control of defense industries, definitely. |
| Date | 12:13:33, October 21, 2006 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Miltary Reform Act |
| Message | The state should not control defence industries, but we can see circumstances in which it should subsidise them - although we can probably support the proposed amendment that would remove subsidies. Article 1 is also something that we could support but we must vote no because of article 3. Whilst we agree that we should probably never use nuclear weapons, we should still retain the right to be able to develop them to ensure the best possible defence for Telamon |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 233 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 68 |
| Random fact: Particracy has been running since 2005. Dorvik was Particracy's first nation, the Dorvik Social Democrats the first party and the International Greens the first Party Organisation. |
| Random quote: "It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them." - Bill Vaughan |