SB 110-13: Cheaper Energy Helps the Poors Act (Tabled)

[WD]

A vote for this bill is a vote to put thousands out of work and to accelerate global warming. That’s a no from me.

[WD]

Cheaper Energy Helps The Poors Act

Senate Bill
to boost domestic energy production to lower energy costs for working Atlasians

Section 1. Title

This Act shall be called the Cheaper Energy Helps the Poors Act.

Section 2. Red-Green Repeal

1. The Red-Green New Deal Act is hereby repealed.

2. 1.  A tax of 10% 25% shall be applied on the profits of any petroleum oil or natural gas extracted in or imported into Atlasia.

Section 3. Enactment

This bill shall come into effect ten (10) days after the date of passage.

A compromise

Opening the vote later today.

You should be opening the 24 hour objection period, and as an objection has already been raised a vote should automatically be opened.

[WD]

Amendment proposal:

Cheaper Energy Helps The Poors Act

Senate Bill
to boost domestic energy production to lower energy costs for working Atlasians

Section 1. Title

This Act shall be called the Cheaper Energy Helps the Poors Act.

Section 2. Red-Green Partial Repeal

1. Section V of The Red-Green New Deal Act is hereby repealed.

2.  A tax of 10% shall be applied on the profits of any petroleum oil or natural gas extracted in or imported into Atlasia.

Section 3. Enactment

This bill shall come into effect ten (10) days after the date of passage.

Objection.

Sad but unsurprising to see that the Federalist Party are the puppets of Oil and Gas profiteers.

[WD]

I’d be fine with revisiting the UBI and lowering the threshold to 70K-80K or thereabout. Perhaps that’s something that can be done in the budget (which sadly, the administration has yet to submit).

As for the RGND, I’m not so sure why some are so keen on killing hundreds of thousands of good paying, union jobs. The NWPA provides jobs in rural areas that have been hit hard by the pandemic and the ensuing recession. Cutting it back now would put hundreds of thousands out of work and would devastate rural Atlasia. There’s no guarantee that these people would find work in the oil and gas industry if this bill is passed, but the only thing that’s guaranteed is higher unemployment.

[WD]

Aye on the S019 amendment

[WD]

Amendment vote

AYE: WD, S019, Blairite, AFE, Sev (5)
NAY: Spark, WM, Muaddib, Mr. R, DeadPrez, NCY, OSR, Greg (8 )
ABSTAIN:

The S019 amendment fails and debate resumes.

I am begging our PPT to learn to count.

The actual final vote:

Aye (9): WD, S019, Blairite, AFE, Sev, DC, Rpryor3, WB, UNL

Nay (9): Spark, WM, Muaddib, Mr. R, DeadPrez, NCY, OSR, Greg, AGA


The amendment ties and the Vice President is needed to tie break.

[WD]

Aye

[WD]

Objecting to a final vote

[WD]

Nay

[WD]

This bill can’t even get enough support for cloture. Motion to table.

[WD]

Aye

[WD]

Feds! Can’t! Govern!