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Bill: Dramatic Nationalization
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communism Wow! Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2374
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign investments.
Old value:: Foreign investors may invest in national companies, but may not get a majority share.
Current: Foreign investors are not allowed to invest in national companies.
Proposed: Foreign investors need to obtain government approval for all investments in national companies.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Proposed: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Current: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Proposed: Trade unions may exist and all workers must have membership in one.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Current: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Proposed: There is a state monopoly on prostitution.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Current: The government requires most industries to be fully run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: The government requires all businesses to be run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:43:23, March 13, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Party/Church of Kalistan | To | Debating the Dramatic Nationalization |
| Message | This breaks the Declaration of Reynoldia in every way possible! |
| Date | 03:03:26, March 13, 2007 CET | From | Communism Wow! Party | To | Debating the Dramatic Nationalization |
| Message | I'm not the only one who's not being good about agreements. You've segregated the country you just joined and closed off immigration, so we now have absolutely nothing we can use for the treaty we were planning to create for your protection. |
| Date | 03:56:57, March 13, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Party/Church of Kalistan | To | Debating the Dramatic Nationalization |
| Message | How was that against the Declaration of Reynoldia? Plus, I haven't closed off immigration, I've made immigration based on nationalisty, and Kalistanis are included in those welcome in Gishoto as they are White. |
| Date | 07:13:02, March 13, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Freedom Party -- KEG SLAM | To | Debating the Dramatic Nationalization |
| Message | We would support 1 and 5 in a separate bill |
| Date | 00:05:01, March 15, 2007 CET | From | Communism Wow! Party | To | Debating the Dramatic Nationalization |
| Message | It doesn't break the Declaration of Reynoldia, but it does make it so that we can't really write a treaty to protect our nationals, because they went and made it so that Gishoto wouldn't meet the requirements of any treaty intended to do that. |
| Date | 02:14:39, March 15, 2007 CET | From |  Wiedervereinigten Nationalisten | To | Debating the Dramatic Nationalization |
| Message | Okay, I really don't understand that post. 1) Neither I, nor the Republic of Gishoto, have in any way broken the Declaration of Reynoldia. 2) The Declaration is NOT an international treaty, but an agreement between the Empire of Kalistan and the Federal Republic of Kalistan that was transformed into national law when you ratified the Declaration in Parliament. 3) This violates almost every proivision in the Declaration. It prohibits foreign investment in Kalistani companies (and because the emigres are now Gishoton nationals, this includes them), which violates the Declaration. Plus, the land reforms really violate the Declaration, as well as the nationalisation of all industries. |
| Date | 01:57:10, March 16, 2007 CET | From | Communism Wow! Party | To | Debating the Dramatic Nationalization |
| Message | "an agreement between the Empire of Kalistan and the Federal Republic of Kalistan that was transformed into national law when you ratified the Declaration in Parliament." And so, like any national law, the parliament can repeal it. Parliament passing a bill does not mean that the provisions are set in stone and must be followed ad infinitum. Even if it was, your anti-land reform provision is a resolution in violation of an already existing law that states you cannot hold a majority share of any corporation. The provision about passing illegal majority holding back into the marketplace was followed, they were sold at auction. Whether or not they are confiscated by the state four years later is irrelevant to that provision. And this bill does not explictly prohibit foriegn investment in companies, because the emigrants could get permission from the government to keep their investments, as they were allowed to in the declaration. The only other aspect of the declaration that I remember, that of you leaving within two years of six boats, you clearly violated when you decided to stick around for significantly longer. Not to mention the fact that a million people don't easily fit on six air craft carriers. But what do you care, you left (supposedly)? |
| Date | 02:30:49, March 16, 2007 CET | From | Hedonist Party | To | Debating the Dramatic Nationalization |
| Message | We disagree with articles 3 and 5 |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 330 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 205 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 80 |
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