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Bill: Corporate Subsidies Elimination Act of 2401
Details
Submitted by[?]: Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition)
Status[?]: defeated
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: May 2402
Description[?]:
| An act to stop the government from subsidizing with taxpayer monies energy-producing companies. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Renewable energy sources (eg. solar power, wind power).
Old value:: Government subsidies are provided for research and generation of energy through renewable sources.
Current: The government does not take any position with regards to renewable energy.
Proposed: The government does not take any position with regards to renewable energy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:36:13, May 09, 2007 CET | From |  Party Royale | To | Debating the Corporate Subsidies Elimination Act of 2401 |
| Message | When a subsidy is simply forcing companies to internalize an externality such as this, the government is right to support the company. Party Royale is opposed. |
| Date | 17:15:00, May 09, 2007 CET | From | People's Socialist Front of Aloria | To | Debating the Corporate Subsidies Elimination Act of 2401 |
| Message | You're joking? |
| Date | 22:31:16, May 09, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Corporate Subsidies Elimination Act of 2401 |
| Message | It is coporate welfare in spite of any assumed economic externalities. As the MLP have noted countless times before, taxpayers are subsidizing these PRIVATE, FOR-PROFIT companies who then sell the products back to the taxpayer. This is called the double-dip. Then, a triple-dip can happen if the externality cause damages which requires money and aid from the state to fix or clean-up. Ridiculous! We pay to help create the product, then we pay to own it and, if need be, to fix its results. No more corporate welfare queens in the Democratic Republic of Aloria! |
| Date | 01:02:13, May 10, 2007 CET | From | Party Royale | To | Debating the Corporate Subsidies Elimination Act of 2401 |
| Message | Are you claiming that research on renewable energy causes negative externalities? We have two choices in promoting this positive good, which even you must admit is beneficial. We can either subsidize private companies or research directly. Unfortunately, you don't seem to be in support of either. |
| Date | 03:36:14, May 10, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Corporate Subsidies Elimination Act of 2401 |
| Message | We need renewable energy, for the environment and for the good of the tax-payers in the long run. |
| Date | 15:50:36, May 10, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Corporate Subsidies Elimination Act of 2401 |
| Message | We are calling for fiscal responsibility, not spending like drunken sailors to make the nation feel good about itself. That's PR not policy. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 146 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 307 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 147 |
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