Reseda, Palma
Published On: 6 July | Authored By: Joaquin Ramirez
A coalition of companies in the fast food, beverage, and snack industries announced today, in a press conference at the McAllister’s Headquarters in Reseda, that it would seek to challenge several provisions of the recently enacted Healthy Living Act, through the facilitation of a national petition to hold a referendum on the Healthy Living Act.
An corporate press conference in Reseda, Palma, materializes
opposition against the HLA
The Coalition for Freedom in Business, or CFB, is currently comprised of the Corporations of McAllister’s, Tricon Global Restaurants, Restaurant Brands International, Pemberton, Bradham, and Jarritos, representing a wide collection of businesses in the fast food, snack, and soda sectors of the Amauritan economy. The Coalition, as confirmed at the press conference, aims to get HLA Article II repealed through the facilitation of a national referendum, or legal action against the Federal Government if a referendum fails to gain any ground for the coalition. The coalition announced that it would begin facilitating the signing of a petition to bring the law up for referendum, which was drafted by the individual members of the McAllister’s Board of Directors and signed by the individual members of each member company’s board of directors.
Under the petition that the Coalition for Freedom in Business has endorsed, HLA Article II would be repealed, and the already existing excise tax on fast foods would be lifted entirely. Under HLA Article II, the excise tax on fast food was doubled from 6% to 12%, and was expanded to cover a larger range of foods deemed to be ‘unhealthy and dangerous if consumed in excess,’ such as sodas. The Coalition has actively called these excise taxes a direct infringement on the coalition member’s ability to conduct business free from excessive taxations and regulations. Furthermore, the Pemberton, Jarrito’s and Bradham Corporations have all voiced discontent with the law’s provisions mandating labels warn about excess added sugar contents of soda beverages, claiming an infringement on free speech in the advertisement of their products.
Under the United States Constitution, private citizens have the ability to call for a referendum on a Federal Law, if the petition to do so gains 50,000,000 signatures within 90 days. When a referendum reaches this threshold, a national vote is scheduled, either on the next election day or on a different date designated by Congress. In the referendum, voters can opt to repeal a Federal Law via a simple majority vote. Through these outlined mechanics, Voters may also propose new federal legislation, and even propose amendments to the United States Constitution, although this requires one hundred million signatures over the span of eighteen months, and a double majority of the popular vote and within the Legislatures of the States. Virtually every Federal Subject in the Union has similar mechanics in place.
As of writing, the Coalition’s petition has been in circulation for approximately 24 hours, and has since amassed one million signatures from across the nation. A majority of signatures have originated from the States of Palma, Nevada, Arisona, Alderney, Jersey, and Scioto, although signatures have originated from across the United States. Within the next 89 days, if the petition amasses an additional forty-nine million votes, a national referendum will be scheduled to determine if HLA Article II should stay on the books or get repealed entirely. Early polling, conducted by Amauritan News Network, confirmed that a national referendum would be more or less split on a national scale, with more uneven divisions in favor of HLA Article II found in the Northeast, California, and Maritimes Regions, with more voters not in favor in the Southeast, Caribbean, and Dixie Regions of the United States.
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