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Bill: Cildania Safety Net Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Marxist-Leninist Happiness Front
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: May 2457
Description[?]:
This bill leaves industry in it's unsavory unregulated form. But some of the excesses are removed by adding a safety net for working families to make sure they have electricity and telephone service. And a central bank is put into place to make sure the currency is stabilized. Obviously we'd like to take things further but we feel these modest reforms will help the workers of Cildania.. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: All banks are privately owned.
Current: The government operates and owns all banks.
Proposed: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Energy regulation.
Old value:: Energy is provided by private companies which are not subject to any special regulations.
Current: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Proposed: Energy is provided by private, unregulated companies but subsidies are given to those on a low income.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: There are no regulations on phone service.
Current: The state regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Proposed: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families but does not regulate the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 15:16:33, September 16, 2007 CET | From | Action | To | Debating the Cildania Safety Net Act |
Message | Action will support this bill. |
Date | 03:57:58, September 17, 2007 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Cildania Safety Net Act |
Message | Oppose. Since there are exactly $0 CDC in the infrastructure budget, and our nation is currently only collecting tax voluntarily, your proposal glaringly fails to describe how exactly you will be intending to raise funds for your safety net project. And if you're thinking of creating a central bank so that you can just print the extra budget income, remember Cildania is on the gold standard, meaning your counterfeiting would be exposed very quickly. |
Date | 08:50:46, September 17, 2007 CET | From | Action | To | Debating the Cildania Safety Net Act |
Message | It is to be combined with the bill on Taxation. The National Bank is a nessicity to the welbeing of the economy. If a collapse should occour [to which the greatest example would be the depressions.] then without either private banks in possession of government stock or a state bank then the banks collapse and though them all their investors. If there are methods in place with this situation in mind then the banks do not collapse as for every dollar invested in the bank the bank owns a dollar of government stock which it can redeem to prevent the self-destruction of the nations economy caused by an International Financal crisis. An unregulated banking system stands without a 'saftey net' to economic disaster. The State bank also runs in competition to private banks so that even should one bank gain a monopoly the state bank still lowers the fees though the sprirt of the Free Market, this competition also forces a quality of service and government influence of interest rates to prevent mass inflation. The profit made from the State banks [and under the Corporate State the Industries.] will allow the funding of government services as well as dramaticly lower taxation. The Nation is better served by the existance of a State Bank then they are without. -Mies |
Date | 19:01:14, September 17, 2007 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Cildania Safety Net Act |
Message | Christ people, read a history book. The great depression in the US was CAUSED in part by their central bank, who jacked up interest rates arbitrarily because they felt the market in the 1920s was "too high". Private banks failed because states had unit banking laws that choked competition and would not allow larger banks to establish branches in small towns. Since these small banks had only farmers for investors with little to no diversification, they couldn't survive when agricultural hard times struck. Canada, in contrast, had no anti-competition laws then, and when the depression hit, not one of their banks failed. Central banks and statist laws create the very economic disasters they're supposed to prevent. History has shown time and again it is only the free markets that survive hard times while planned economies fail. |
Date | 22:40:19, September 17, 2007 CET | From | Marxist-Leninist Happiness Front | To | Debating the Cildania Safety Net Act |
Message | So a federal reserve bank and a small subsidy so an old lady can afford telephone service would lead to the total collapse of the capitalist system? We disagree but certainly would LOVE to be proven wrong. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes |
Total Seats: 122 | ||||
no |
Total Seats: 248 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 55 |
Random fact: Cabinet ministers who disagree seriously with the head of government would usually be expected to resign. Parties within the cabinet may attempt to manoeuvre to replace the head of government though, for example by proposing a new cabinet bill or voting for an early election. |
Random quote: Although I understand and respect the intentions behind the gesture, this is not something that is universally understood or appreciated, and it tends to give out a negative impression of our party. ~ Anton Weinreich, General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party, pleading with his members to stop burning the national flag |