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Bill: Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Beluzians
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: January 2083
Description[?]:
| Seeing as a large portion of Beluzia are using polluting automobiles, That there is no reason for the public to choose vehicles specifically designed for environmentally favorable fuels, That there is no support from the government to encourage 'carpooling', the travel of multiple people in one vehicle, Let this body both subsidize and encourage ecological-friendly personal vehicles. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning private cars.
Old value:: There are no regulations on the ownership of private cars.
Current: Only cars using environmentally friendly fuels are allowed.
Proposed: Private cars are allowed, but people are encouraged to travel collective and tax incentives are provided for cars using environmentally friendly fuels.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:20:01, July 12, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | Nein. If the Private Sector (there it is again - do you hear a choir of angels?) wants to get people on the buses they run or the cars they make they can make it cheaper. The less we politikers do the better the country will be. (Unless I suggest a proposal and then its obviously a good thing) |
| Date | 08:40:53, July 14, 2005 CET | From | Free Beluzians | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | These do not make as much of a profit for the Private Sector as other modes of transportation, therefore they will not produce these items or run said busses. |
| Date | 14:09:13, July 14, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | We all need to cycle everywhere. |
| Date | 00:39:43, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | Actually PAL laissez-faire doesn't work; that's why it was scrapped for the most part at the end of the 19th century. |
| Date | 00:44:19, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | What does laissez-faire mean? It's only been a year since I stopped doing french at school and I've forgotten it ALL. |
| Date | 00:49:40, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Free Beluzians | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | ....wow, you failed at Econ, too? Laissez-faire is French, yes, but its also an economic term meaning 'Hand's off', where the government doesn't do a single thing to interfere with the economy. Sorry to us a RL example, but that is what caused the Great Depression - the Government didn't intervine in the economy, leading to massive fraud, and when it was found out - it all fell like a house of cards. Government intervention is what fixed the economy in the US - starting with Roosevelt's Bank holiday, which closed the banks long enough to allow them to figure out what the hell was going on. Which is why Laissez-faire was scrapped. |
| Date | 00:56:39, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | Yeah technical terms aren't a strong point of mine. Thanks for the explaination and example. |
| Date | 01:20:56, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | Not just the economy. Laissez-faire politics involves economic, social and political situations that a Government or related political parties find themselves involved in. The most closely related in the RW of today would be Libertarianism, though this fails to grasp the full basis of Laissez-Faire policies. OOC @ FBP - Sadly Laissez-faire hasn't been entirely scrapped in politics (see above description of Libertarianism). |
| Date | 01:29:13, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Free Beluzians | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | OOC: NMRP I know, sad isn't it. IC: I would like to apologize to the representative for the PAAL for my comment earlier, when I said, "....wow, you failed at Econ, too?" This remark was out of line, and I ask that it be stricken from the record. |
| Date | 17:58:18, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | We support this progressive choice, and emphasise that the ignorance of the PAL representative only proves the point that we need to improve Beluzian public education! |
| Date | 14:53:48, July 16, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | Well I didn't do Econ so you had a point. It was gauling to see that my whole family and girlfriend who isn't even interest that much in politics knew what it meant. I suppose somethings just slip by you when your growing up ;-) |
| Date | 14:57:59, July 16, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | However the SLP's comment about ignorance is a bit close to the bone; Imay not be a master of english and I most certainly don't know everything but I think that I'm still intitled to comment on a principle which is fairly able to understand evn if I didn't know what it was officialy called. Can we just have a little more R-E-S-P-E-C-T Or as Ali-G says repesct! (or something like that) |
| Date | 20:07:15, July 16, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | * "able" - should be easy |
| Date | 01:57:59, July 19, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | (I am only being rude In Character. Please do not take it as an Out Of Character insult. OOCly, you have my full understanding.) |
| Date | 11:31:59, July 19, 2005 CET | From | Beluzian Labor Party | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | (Ali G says R E S T E C P. Restecp...) Labor supports this proposal because it embraces positive rewards for environmentally sound decisions, as opposed to punitive penalties. Taxation breaks for people who drive environmentally friendly cars are good - penalties for people who drive regular old gas guzzlers are bad. Labor supports Lifting the Standard of Beluzia's environment. |
| Date | 13:12:01, July 19, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | Thanks for the Ali-G correction |
| Date | 13:13:28, July 19, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Enviromentally Friendly Automobile Subsidy Act |
| Message | I suppose since this isn't a negative against 'proper' cars it is just positive towards ecocars we can support this. Minis run on sunflower oil by the way. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 236 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 38 |
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