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Bill: Telephone Lines
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Movement of Gaduridos
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: November 2425
Description[?]:
| Taking Pressure off govt |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Current: The state regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Proposed: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:26:45, July 08, 2007 CET | From | Gaduri Resistencia | To | Debating the Telephone Lines |
| Message | Govt. is under more pressure if it has to pay whatever the capitalists dictate. |
| Date | 18:48:03, July 08, 2007 CET | From | Capitalists for Prosperity | To | Debating the Telephone Lines |
| Message | If we moved to a free market economy, we would have to worry about that. The people could decide for themselves what they want to pay. |
| Date | 19:54:52, July 08, 2007 CET | From | Gaduri Resistencia | To | Debating the Telephone Lines |
| Message | At the cost of their civil liberties and equality... |
| Date | 02:13:57, July 09, 2007 CET | From | Capitalists for Prosperity | To | Debating the Telephone Lines |
| Message | What loss of civil liberties? It's you that doesn't value the right to private property. As for this equality crap, the only equality needed in a republic is equal treatment to minorities and equal preparation for their future jobs and ambitions. From there on, people must and deserve to be put into groups based on how hard they do and have worked. |
| Date | 11:01:56, July 09, 2007 CET | From | Gaduri Resistencia | To | Debating the Telephone Lines |
| Message | You have just described a mixed economy, not a free market.... |
| Date | 19:57:54, July 09, 2007 CET | From | Capitalists for Prosperity | To | Debating the Telephone Lines |
| Message | Yes, yes, I do realize that. Believe it or not, I'm not some crazy anarchist or libertarian. Anyway, these days, when people talk about the free markets or capitalism, they mean a free market-oreinted or a capitalist-oriented economy. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 149 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 165 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 121 |
| Random fact: Real-life organisations should not be referenced in Particracy, unless they are simple and generic (eg. "National Organisation for Women" is allowed). |
| Random quote: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun... our principle is to have the Party control the gun and never allow the gun to control the Party." - Mao Zedong |