Bill: Rejected A Cool New Player Protection Act Amendment

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A
BILL
To
Amend the White-Collar Crack Down Act​

The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the “A Cool New Player Protection Act Amendment"
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This bill was authored by Representative A__C.
(4) This Act is co-sponsored by Representative RelaxedGV.

2 - Reasons
(1) The wording in the current White-Collar Crack Down Act is unclear and leaves a lot of room for interpretation due to grammar and “reasonable” being variable depending on the person.
(2) New players tend to not have the same knowledge on the economy as more experienced players, which gives experienced players the opportunity to portray items as worth more in an effort to get a portion of a new player’s starting balance.

3 - Terms
(1) Amends Part (8) of Section 4 - Types of Fraud from:
(8) New Player Fraud shall be defined as "If a player tries to get another player to pay them their starting balance or a portion of it without any reasonable justification or any service or item in return, within the affected players first 12 hours of playtime.

To:
(8) New Player Fraud shall be defined as "If a player tries to get another player to pay them their starting balance or a portion of it without any reasonable justification, i.e. a reasonably priced service or item in return, within the affected players first 12 hours of playtime. In this case, the Department of Education & Commerce should be consulted on previous sales of the same item to see if it is within one standard deviation of transactions on the latest CPI data. If it is not within or lower than that range, then it is not considered reasonably priced. If the item was not sold on the latest CPI, a reasonably priced item is a maximum of 500% of the cost of the components as according to the latest CPI.

 

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Nay - Reasonable can be decided by the courts on a case-by-case basis if it is challenged. By defining 'reasonable,' you create loopholes. No statesperson could reasonably legislate all of the possible loopholes and technicalities - that's why I preference adjudication through the courts.