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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: February 16, 2009, 10:11:08 AM »
Billboard Quarantine Act

       Recognizing that highway billboards are a form of visual pollution scaring the landscape of Atlasian highways, One Billion Dollars is hereby appropriated for the following purposes:

  (i)    To secure visual easements along Altasian federal highways in which the posting of any commercial signage is prohibited.

  (ii)    To plant trees between Atlasian federal highways and billboards so that the tree foliage camouflages such billboards from the view of occupants of motor vehicles on such highways.


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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2009, 12:43:54 PM »
My goodness, what a waste of money.
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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2009, 02:02:32 PM »
Really? This can't actually be what you guys spend your time on.
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« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2009, 02:08:24 PM »
Quote from: Mideast Assembly Speaker Purple State on February 16, 2009, 02:02:32 PM
Really? This can't actually be what you guys spend your time on.

I know, I can't believe it's been going for nearly five years.
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« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2009, 02:42:10 PM »
Obviously I support this.
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« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2009, 03:51:24 PM »
Driving on the hiiiiiighway
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« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2009, 04:36:04 PM »
     $1 billion dollars? That's rather a lot for something rather superfluous.
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Torie
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« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2009, 01:22:18 PM »
Quote from: Senator PiT on February 16, 2009, 04:36:04 PM
     $1 billion dollars? That's rather a lot for something rather superfluous.

Well, we could cut it down to 500 million. That is really small change for a bill with national scope. Billboards are evil. They have no redeeming social merit. Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2009, 06:37:41 PM »
Quote from: Torie on February 18, 2009, 01:22:18 PM
Quote from: Senator PiT on February 16, 2009, 04:36:04 PM
     $1 billion dollars? That's rather a lot for something rather superfluous.

Well, we could cut it down to 500 million. That is really small change for a bill with national scope. Billboards are evil. They have no redeeming social merit. Smiley

     I don't remember seeing many billboards along highways where I live. Is there a huge billboard infestation in Orange County or something?
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« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2009, 06:54:09 PM »
This bill reeks of SOCIALISM to me.

But I do support planting trees.
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Torie
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« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2009, 09:55:15 PM »
Quote from: Senator PiT on February 18, 2009, 06:37:41 PM
Quote from: Torie on February 18, 2009, 01:22:18 PM
Quote from: Senator PiT on February 16, 2009, 04:36:04 PM
     $1 billion dollars? That's rather a lot for something rather superfluous.

Well, we could cut it down to 500 million. That is really small change for a bill with national scope. Billboards are evil. They have no redeeming social merit. Smiley

     I don't remember seeing many billboards along highways where I live. Is there a huge billboard infestation in Orange County or something?

The infestation is more manifest in the desert, but there are some of the excrescences in the more down market zones of OC in the inland flat zones. In my town, they are absolutely banned.
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« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2009, 10:15:47 AM »
If I understand this bill correctly it seems to go agaienst the free market and though I'm not exactly an exonomic right-winger I think that needs to be preserved and will most likely vote nay.
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« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2009, 03:34:00 PM »
Quote from: Senator HappyWarrior on February 19, 2009, 10:15:47 AM
If I understand this bill correctly it seems to go agaienst the free market and though I'm not exactly an exonomic right-winger I think that needs to be preserved and will most likely vote nay.

Nah, it is just purchasing a public good - landscape seen from our highways as God intended it, free from the "spoilation" of billboards.
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« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2009, 08:18:58 PM »
Torie, you disappoint me. I'm all for saving the environment but this bill is crap. Tongue
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« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2009, 05:56:02 AM »
Excellent bill.
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« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2009, 01:50:38 PM »
Quote from: MasterJedi on February 19, 2009, 08:18:58 PM
Torie, you disappoint me. I'm all for saving the environment but this bill is crap. Tongue

I am just devastated that you don't find favor with all of my little creative brainstorms. Sad
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« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2009, 12:57:25 PM »
Motion to Table
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« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2009, 07:15:36 PM »
Nay.
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« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2009, 10:50:14 PM »
On second thought, I withdraw my table motion.
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