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Bill: Telecommuting

Details

Submitted by[?]: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation

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: April 2095

Description[?]:

In order to reduce the strain of the long-distance commuter, and the strain that this piuts on our resoruces, this bill would make it easier to telecommute to work. Every household applying for this would be given a free telephone line, including high-seed internet access if necessary, to let people work from home. No household will be required to avail itself of this service.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date02:13:42, August 09, 2005 CET
From Tuesday Is Coming
ToDebating the Telecommuting
MessageNo.

Free? Yeah right.

"No household will be required to avail itself of this service."
No, of course not. Only to pay for it whether they use it or not.

Date02:26:14, August 09, 2005 CET
FromAdam Smith Party
ToDebating the Telecommuting
MessageFree, except the tax that is paying for it. When will these parties learn that the only things that cost nothing are worth exactly what they cost?

Is the same going to be provided for the companies. Do they get "free" internet servers, and database engineers.

How about the fishermen and farmers? Can they haul in the nets or milk the cows over their high speed cable connection? Or the manufacturing industries or miners. Perhaps the police can arrest the bankrobbers by using a right mouse click?

Get real, learn about how an economy works, and what most people do for a living.

Date02:50:41, August 09, 2005 CET
FromCooperative Commonwealth Federation
ToDebating the Telecommuting
Messagenot everyone can telecommute. Many can. This will make that easier. The savings in transportation will be enormous, and go straight into the pockets of commuters.

Date05:26:03, August 09, 2005 CET
From Tuesday Is Coming
ToDebating the Telecommuting
MessageIf it is economical for people to telecommute, if they can accomplish their job's tasks using this, they will already do so to save themselves money.

What this does is fool people into thinking that something is "free", and it is to the extent that their consumption isn't tied to their cost. This will create a near-infinite demand for the services, which will increase the cost per unit for the suppliers to produce(even if it is the government).

Date16:30:14, August 09, 2005 CET
FromAdam Smith Party
ToDebating the Telecommuting
MessageThis is indirect subsidy of the already better off by the poorer sectors of the nation. Those individuals that could telecommute are those in social classes A and B. Theese are the better off members of our society. Those that would be paying extra tax to cover this but gaining no benefit are those in social classes C and D, the less well off sectors of our society. This is typical exploitation that we would have expected to see from a corporate welfarist, not from a socialist leaning party.

Date17:03:10, August 09, 2005 CET
FromCooperative Commonwealth Federation
ToDebating the Telecommuting
Messagecheck our party description. The Greens have never claimed to be socialist.

Date17:41:13, August 09, 2005 CET
FromAdam Smith Party
ToDebating the Telecommuting
MessageWe are not concerned with your public claims in judging what type of party you are, we judge this from your voting record, and on this basis you are a socialist party, whether you claim to be one or not.

Date18:00:24, August 09, 2005 CET
FromCooperative Commonwealth Federation
ToDebating the Telecommuting
Messagehey, you've criticized us for not being socialist-leaning in this bill. Guilty as charged.

It's an attempt to engineer a partial replacement of transport by communications.

Date01:55:57, August 10, 2005 CET
From Tuesday Is Coming
ToDebating the Telecommuting
MessageI see this bill as socialist. Socialists love to spend other people's money, which this bill does.

Date07:34:03, August 10, 2005 CET
FromAdam Smith Party
ToDebating the Telecommuting
MessageWe see this bill as authoritarian, we do not see it as having socialist consequences, and as such we were suprised that the GA would propose this, after all they normally propose socialist authoritarian actions such as trying to control which charities our citizens donate money to.

Date06:45:33, August 13, 2005 CET
FromAdam Smith Party
ToDebating the Telecommuting
MessageThe socialist authoritarians strike again. Now the farmers, miners, and factory workers are subsidising the stock brokers and lawyers. Great socialist principles there.

Date17:21:21, August 13, 2005 CET
FromCooperative Commonwealth Federation
ToDebating the Telecommuting
Messageyes, we have conceded the point that this is not a socialist measure and was never intended to be. Why keep harping on it?

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
     

Total Seats: 301

no
   

Total Seats: 149

abstain

    Total Seats: 0


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