Toolendusia
16-02-2006, 01:06
After reading Jennifer Government, I decided to create legislation for the U.N. to stop monopolies...The BPRA (Business Power Regulation Act) and it's currently awaiting more approvals. Please take some time to look at it, I think it's worthwhile.
Flibbleites
16-02-2006, 04:54
It's considered polite to post the text of your proposal here in the forums, otherwise we just assume that it says, "Moo, Oink, Squee, Squee."
Bob Flibble
UN Representative
It's considered polite to post the text of your proposal here in the forums, otherwise we just assume that it says, "Moo, Oink, Squee, Squee."
Bob Flibble
UN Representative
So that's what that card stands for! ;)
I'll be nice and post the text:
Business Power Regulation Act
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
Category: Free Trade
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Toolendusia
Description: NOTING that there are several 'big-box' retailers currently dominating the private sector,
SEEING that corporate giants can put out small business, and also
FINDING that this widens the gap between the CEO and the employee and puts more people at lower-paying occupations,
REALIZING that this is detrimental to free trade among smaller businesses, and also
REALIZING that big business can hold monopolies on certain areas of the private sector, driving costs to whatever they want, and finally
NOTING that when businesses become big enough they can pressure laws, legislators, courts, and politicians into becoming corrupt,
BE IT RESOLVED that:
-Monopolies upon any sector by any one company or store will be forbidden and punishable by law.
-Monopoly will be defined as the United Nations as "Exclusive possession or control of a certain market, product, or area of business.
-When and if a company or store takes monopoly, the following punishments will be enacted appropriately:
-If it is a monopoly at city or town level, the company will be ordered to pay a fine no less but possibly more than $75,000 as it translates to the nation's currency for each time a monopoly is committed, with the exception of towns with populations equal to or less than 40,000.
-If it is a monopoly at state, territory, province, division, kingdom, or queendom level, the company will be ordered to pay a fine no less than $400,000 and no more than $700,000 as it translates to the nation's currency for each time a monopoly is committed.
-If it is a monopoly at national level, the company will be ordered to pay a fine of no less than $900,000 and no more than $4,000,000 as it translates to national currency and will be shut down at that level if it commits three monopoly offenses.
-If it is a monopoly at international level, the company will be ordered to pay a fine of no less than $1,000,000,000 and no more than $5,000,000,000 as it translates to national currency and will be shut down at that level if it commits three monopoly offenses. International monopolies will be handled by the U.N.
-A U.N. committee will be created to handle exceptional cases, when the nation, division, town or city, or group of nations decide that the case is an exception to decide on whether or not the case is, in fact, an exception.
Approvals: 16 (Scotts and Lyon, Toolendusia, Desert Storm Iraq, Love and esterel, Saorse, Benfinan, Flamebaittrolls, Palorrin, Firebert, Outer Cuffeovia, New Hamilton, Gaiah, Randomplaceland, Zutroy, Biotopia, Of Cascadia)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 108 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Fri Feb 17 2006
No. Ceorana values liberty: for both people and corporations. We have a few antitrust laws, yes, but we don't want to have to force businesses to pay UN-specified punishments.
Zeldon 6229 Nodlez
16-02-2006, 06:58
So [I]No. Ceorana values liberty: for both people and corporations. We have a few antitrust laws, yes, but we don't want to have to force businesses to pay UN-specified punishments.
Where did I miss that these fines will go to UN as it says simply they pay them but not to whom they pay them? Also who will collect any fines placed and decide who is going to be fined as the only committee set up is not for that.. Also where it does say UN will handle it their still is nothing set up within UN to handle this.
-A U.N. committee will be created to handle exceptional cases, when the nation, division, town or city, or group of nations decide that the case is an exception to decide on whether or not the case is, in fact, an exception.
As it only decides who don't pay these fines not who will pay them as to me they have to be fined to get an 'exception' to such before they can see the committee. Since there is nothing set up to manage this before hand then nobody will be fined as it says nothing about UN fining nor any other thing. Just that fines will be this or that.
Also isn't there something on any proposal that has actual people/nations getting in and doing something alone or together. It's okay to set up a committee but not to put members on it. As this would mean the UN would have to pick nations to serve on this so called committe to make it effective.
St Edmund
16-02-2006, 15:33
Description: NOTING that there are several 'big-box' retailers currently dominating the private sector,
Where? RL reference? Not necessarily the case in every NSUN member, let alone in the vastness of the NSUN as a whole...
SEEING that corporate giants can put out small business,
So can governments' policies...
Monopolies upon any sector by any one company or store will be forbidden and punishable by law.
-Monopoly will be defined as the United Nations as "Exclusive possession or control of a certain market, product, or area of business.
So any company or individual that invents a new product must let others produce & sell it too, without being able to reclaim a fair share of the R&D costs from them or being allowed any time in which to profit from innovativeness? What happens to patent laws?
-When and if a company or store takes monopoly, the following punishments will be enacted appropriately:
-If it is a monopoly at city or town level, the company will be ordered to pay a fine no less but possibly more than $75,000 as it translates to the nation's currency for each time a monopoly is committed, with the exception of towns with populations equal to or less than 40,000.
-If it is a monopoly at state, territory, province, division, kingdom, or queendom level, the company will be ordered to pay a fine no less than $400,000 and no more than $700,000 as it translates to the nation's currency for each time a monopoly is committed.
-If it is a monopoly at national level, the company will be ordered to pay a fine of no less than $900,000 and no more than $4,000,000 as it translates to national currency and will be shut down at that level if it commits three monopoly offenses.
-If it is a monopoly at international level, the company will be ordered to pay a fine of no less than $1,000,000,000 and no more than $5,000,000,000 as it translates to national currency and will be shut down at that level if it commits three monopoly offenses.
We don't use "$" as currency in St Edmund, we don't deal with many nations that do use currencies referred to by that symbol, and we've certainly never seen it defined as an official currency for the NSUN.