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General Assembly of the United Nations,

REALIZING the benefits of capitalism in the vein of higher average income, the proliferation of goods, and economic success,

DEEPLY DISTURBED by the trend in international economics towards laissez faire politics, corporate influence in a multitude of governments, and corporate misbehavior,

OBSERVING that a free market has emerged on an international level, and in order to maintain this free market governmental regulations must be enacted on a national and international level,

FURTHER OBSERVING that the emergence of globalization has crippled the smaller businesses of nations and has created unbalanced playing fields in the global marketplace,

MANDATES the following:

1) The creation of the United Nations Trade Regulation Agency (TRA) in order to monitor corporations which operate on an international level in order to better protect the rights of workers across the globe.

2) The encouragement of minimum wage laws, tariffs, labor unions, and worker's rights legislation in all UN member nations.

3) The breakup of monopolies which operate on an international level and barring any corporation which acts on a global level from controlling more than 33% of any certain and specific world marketplace (for instance, the soda sales market).

4) The encouragement of corporations to provide benefits in the form of social welfare and healthcare through tax breaks.

AFFIRMED in the belief that this resolution will be a stepping stone on the path to a free market which will remain free and provide fair treatment for all workers,

HEREBY enacts the Trade Regulation Act.

Anyway, please help me edit this proposal so it can become something we can all say we were a part of, and something that bettered the world of NationStates.

Please don't. Bad economics and logical flaws will worsen the world of NS.

I don't want to go through the details of your protectionist mumbo-jumbo, but I did find this especially amusing:

... a free market which will remain free and provide fair treatment for all workers

Considering the UN's domain is only 1/4 of the world, I think your proposal is a bit......overreaching.

General Assembly of the United Nations,

REALIZING the benefits of capitalism in the vein of higher average income, the proliferation of goods, and economic success,

DEEPLY DISTURBED by the trend in international economics towards laissez faire politics, corporate influence in a multitude of governments, and corporate misbehavior,

OBSERVING that a free market has emerged on an international level, and in order to maintain this free market governmental regulations must be enacted on a national and international level,

FURTHER OBSERVING that the emergence of globalization has crippled the smaller businesses of nations and has created unbalanced playing fields in the global marketplace,
Not sure how popular this will be, but it's fine for the resolution.

MANDATES the following:
No problems there.

1) The creation of the United Nations Trade Regulation Agency (TRA) in order to monitor corporations which operate on an international level in order to better protect the rights of workers across the globe.
Lose this altogether. It's just another useless committee that doesn't do anything. The rest of your resolution can stand alone.

2) The encouragement of minimum wage laws, tariffs, labor unions, and worker's rights legislation in all UN member nations.
OK. I like that this is encouraged rather than mandated.

3) The breakup of monopolies which operate on an international level and barring any corporation which acts on a global level from controlling more than 33% of any certain and specific world marketplace (for instance, the soda sales market).
What if it's the only business in an obscure field? I would maybe have the committee decide on this (I only said to get rid of it because it wasn't doing anything, but if it does something, then it's fine), or just encourage it.


4) The encouragement of corporations to provide benefits in the form of social welfare and healthcare through tax breaks.
This needs to be restructured. You're not using "encouraged" in the same way as the other time you used it, which makes the resolution confusing.

AFFIRMED in the belief that this resolution will be a stepping stone on the path to a free market which will remain free and provide fair treatment for all workers,
This is a good conclusion.

HEREBY enacts the Trade Regulation Act.
Lose this. You've already enacted it by saying what it does. It's like saying "Hereby does what I just said it does".

How about...no.

We concur. No.

*Sir Clive stands up, steam poring from his ears, his face turning an interesting shade of purple, pulls his ceremonial sword from his scabard, points it at the Belarum Delegate, and shouts at the top of his voice*

May the ghost of Richard Cobden haunt your nation till eternity!

*Throws sword at the Belarum ambassador, misses, and accidently kills a gnome...*

3) The breakup of monopolies which operate on an international level and barring any corporation which acts on a global level from controlling more than 33% of any certain and specific world marketplace (for instance, the soda sales market).

So no new inventions can be produced & sold "on a global level" unless at least three separate corporations are involved?

By the way, there are actually multiple worlds involved...