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Bill: Privatize the Central Bank
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberty 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: July 2439
Description[?]:
| Private banks are run far more efficiently and are more profitable for both the consumer and the owner. The state should pull out of the banking business, as we have no place in it. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Current: The government operates large, national banks, but small community based private banks are allowed.
Proposed: All banks are privately owned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:13:19, August 03, 2007 CET | From |  Ancient and Noble Order of the Cavaliers | To | Debating the Privatize the Central Bank |
| Message | "I believe the purpose of the central bank is not for investments, but for the regulation of the national currency." -the Lord Lingford, Minister of Finance |
| Date | 07:48:15, August 04, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Privatize the Central Bank |
| Message | Our currency can be based on a stable precious metal such as gold or silver, it will regulate itself with minor inflation/deflation. |
| Date | 15:35:38, August 04, 2007 CET | From | Ancient and Noble Order of the Cavaliers | To | Debating the Privatize the Central Bank |
| Message | "If we base it on a stable precious metal is almost impossible to find! The price of gold fluctuates much too often. Rather, the value of our currency should be based on faith in the government." -the Lord Lingford, Minister of Finance |
| Date | 06:03:24, August 05, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Privatize the Central Bank |
| Message | No, the price of gold is one of the most stable commodities on the market. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 193 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 146 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 62 |
| Random fact: The voters enjoy active parties who take upon themselves the initiative to create laws. |
| Random quote: "The main problem of the left is that it has been traditionally divided and unable to reach agreements between different leftist views, whilst the right has almost always moved in the same direction by giving concessions to different rightist points of view." - Aelius Celer, former Selucian politician |