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Bill: Our Wallets. Our selves
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Radical Libertarian Party
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: August 2442
Description[?]:
| In the interests of greater efficency, we must let the invisible hand of the market direct our economic progress; not the all too visible and heavy hand of an army of statist bureaucrats. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns all defence industries.
Current: The state owns all defence industries.
Proposed: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Eminent Domain.
Old value:: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Current: The government may not seize private property.
Proposed: The government may not seize private property.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is legal, but only in private homes and casinos with special licences.
Current: Gambling is legal across the nation, no regulation whatsoever.
Proposed: Gambling is legal across the nation, no regulation whatsoever.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning gated communities.
Old value:: The government sets up gated communities.
Current: No gated communities are allowed.
Proposed: The private sector can set up gated communities.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: All radio stations are owned by the state.
Current: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Proposed: All radio stations are private.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: All television stations are owned by the state.
Current: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: All television media are private.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Internet regulations.
Old value:: The government runs its own internet with government approved content only and no connection to the rest of the world.
Current: The government has no position on who may use or what is published on the internet.
Proposed: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Government provision of legal aid to the accused.
Old value:: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state.
Current: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state.
Proposed: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state for defendants with low incomes.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Tort reform on non-civil lawsuits.
Old value:: There is a cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Current: There is a cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Proposed: There is no cap on monetary damages awarded to patients in lawsuits.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change International media content regulation.
Old value:: International media content is heavily censored for political purposes.
Current: International media content undergoes the same regulation as domestic media content.
Proposed: International media content undergoes the same regulation as domestic media content.
Article 11
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Current: There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Article 12
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of video games.
Old value:: Video games are prohibited, except those that pass strict government content ratings.
Current: The government does not maintain laws as to age limitation for purchasing video games, although it does require a content rating to be clearly displayed on the box.
Proposed: The government does not maintain laws as to age limitation for purchasing video games, although it does require a content rating to be clearly displayed on the box.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:14:21, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Ars Moriendi Party | To | Debating the Our Wallets. Our selves |
| Message | Articles 4 and 6 are bald attempts to widen the divide between the already ossified classes in our nation, and are unacceptable. 7 and 8 we aren't opposed to in theory, but feel the short-term effects of immediate, complete and total privatization will be undesireable. A gradual approach would be better. Articles 9, 10, and 12 we support fully. The rest we see as irrelevant to the immediate issue at hand: restraining corporate collusion in price-fixing in the labor market. |
| Date | 08:29:53, August 03, 2007 CET | From | Permissive Social Union | To | Debating the Our Wallets. Our selves |
| Message | We will never subject the state to the will of some invisible hand, when we need an iron fist. |
| Date | 23:42:29, August 03, 2007 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Our Wallets. Our selves |
| Message | 10 of these proposals are abhorrent, two merely distasteful. |
| Date | 05:41:15, August 04, 2007 CET | From | Riot of Lone Romantics | To | Debating the Our Wallets. Our selves |
| Message | I have an issue with Articles 1, 4, 9 and 12. |
| Date | 14:59:08, August 09, 2007 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Our Wallets. Our selves |
| Message | To RLR - Can you be more specific as to your objections to these articles? We are open top compromise on some of these issues. |
| Date | 13:02:17, August 14, 2007 CET | From | Riot of Lone Romantics | To | Debating the Our Wallets. Our selves |
| Message | The invisible hand is the key that guides us romanticists. We will vote alongside you. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 239 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 427 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: It is the collective responsibility of the players in a nation to ensure all currently binding RP laws are clearly outlined in an OOC reference bill in the "Bills under debate" section of the nation page. Confusion should not be created by displaying only some of the current RP laws or displaying RP laws which are no longer current. |
| Random quote: "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to defend minorities." - Ayn Rand |