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Bill: First Step
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Revolutionary Program
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 2443
Description[?]:
| This bill is considered the first step towards a bourgeois free society! Long Live the Revolution! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on advertising
Old value:: All advertising is permitted.
Current: Only advertising that meets certain set standards is permitted.
Proposed: Only governmental organisation advertising is permitted.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: All banks are privately owned.
Current: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Proposed: The government operates and owns all banks.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Energy regulation.
Old value:: Energy provision is left to local governments.
Current: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Proposed: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign investments.
Old value:: Foreign investors may invest in national companies, but may not get a majority share.
Current: Foreign investors may freely invest in national companies.
Proposed: Foreign investors need to obtain government approval for all investments in national companies.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Current: Gambling is illegal.
Proposed: Gambling is illegal.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Current: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Proposed: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: There are no regulations on phone service.
Current: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Proposed: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change The distribution, purchasing and possession of material depicting pornographic acts.
Old value:: Pornography depicting consenting adults is legal for adults.
Current: Pornography depicting consenting adults is legal for adults.
Proposed: All forms of pornography are illegal.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: The government does not regulate hiring policies.
Current: The government sets compulsory quotas for hiring women, minorities and marginalized groups.
Proposed: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:18:26, August 17, 2007 CET | From | People's Revolutionary Program | To | Debating the First Step |
| Message | To truly free the people we must cast off the shackles of our oppression! For the Working Class to be truly free the means of production must be put in the hands of the people! For this nation to survive we must properly pay workers in order for them to remain positive members of society! The time has come to smash open the pocketbooks of the ruthless bourgeois and crush them under foot! Workers of the World Unite for the Bourgeois of Aloria are nothing but paper tigers! |
| Date | 08:46:29, August 17, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberalism Party | To | Debating the First Step |
| Message | Well, you're certainly ambitious. |
| Date | 08:51:16, August 17, 2007 CET | From | People's Revolutionary Program | To | Debating the First Step |
| Message | Only action breaks the shackles of the workers. |
| Date | 18:00:08, August 17, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the First Step |
| Message | We're still working on giving slander victims a right to recover. We'll work on the revolution later. Good luck to you, though. |
| Date | 02:19:05, August 18, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the First Step |
| Message | All this wl\ill allow for is governmental propaganda, less free of a market, and less freedom for all. The CP will not allow this. |
| Date | 06:16:08, August 18, 2007 CET | From | People's Revolutionary Program | To | Debating the First Step |
| Message | Yes indeed less market means more freedom we will not enslave the masses for the invisible hand! |
| Date | 13:08:05, August 18, 2007 CET | From | United Laborers | To | Debating the First Step |
| Message | Some great ideas mixed in with some clear violations of freedom. We cannot support this. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 494 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 84 |
| Random fact: Voters have an extra appreciation for bills that actually get passed, so if you want to maximally take profit from your votes, make sure you compromise with others. |
| Random quote: "War crimes is such a lilliputian term for the atrocities committed by the Yeudish state." - Katrine Lorenzen, former Kazulian diplomat |