05-04-2004, 05:14
For those of you who've heard of line item veto, you probably already know what I'm talking about. For the rest of you, line item veto is the idea of giving officials who have final approval over laws (like the president of the US) the power to veto parts and pass other parts.
What I would like to propose is breaking down changes into parts so that we might choose the parts we want to pass and the parts we don't. I find myself dismissing more than half my issues because I don't like the options, or choosing otpions I don't like on at least half of those. I think in the time I've been here, I've liked maybe two options I've chosen. Yet within each choice, I see several parts I would like, but I can't pick them because of the other stuff! Nobody thinks like I do, and thus you can't have the choices reflect how I think when the effects are grouped together like this.
Yes, this would be an enormous change in how issues work. Huge, and would take a while to implement. However, the benefits of being in greater control of your nation would be staggering. You could actually do what you wanted to your nation, whithout having bad side effects of not dealing with issues becuase how you wanted to deal with it wasn't there, or at least it'd be a lot closer.
Yep, it'd be less realistic, but to tell the truth, the whole thing is unrealistic! Just because you choose something most certainly doens't mean the goverment will pass it in real life. So, if we're going to allow that much control over a nation anyway, why not make it possible to actually shape the nation you really want, instead of some screwed up variation you didn't?
What think ye all?
What I would like to propose is breaking down changes into parts so that we might choose the parts we want to pass and the parts we don't. I find myself dismissing more than half my issues because I don't like the options, or choosing otpions I don't like on at least half of those. I think in the time I've been here, I've liked maybe two options I've chosen. Yet within each choice, I see several parts I would like, but I can't pick them because of the other stuff! Nobody thinks like I do, and thus you can't have the choices reflect how I think when the effects are grouped together like this.
Yes, this would be an enormous change in how issues work. Huge, and would take a while to implement. However, the benefits of being in greater control of your nation would be staggering. You could actually do what you wanted to your nation, whithout having bad side effects of not dealing with issues becuase how you wanted to deal with it wasn't there, or at least it'd be a lot closer.
Yep, it'd be less realistic, but to tell the truth, the whole thing is unrealistic! Just because you choose something most certainly doens't mean the goverment will pass it in real life. So, if we're going to allow that much control over a nation anyway, why not make it possible to actually shape the nation you really want, instead of some screwed up variation you didn't?
What think ye all?