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Bill: Private Industry, June 2463
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertà Parti
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: October 2464
Description[?]:
| To allow private industry to exist. Vital yet failing industries will be nationalized by the government. If you check the national opinion polls, Likatonians are moderately capitalist. This is what they want. Let's at least give them a chance. After all, if they don't like this new system, we'll find out when I'm voted to the bottom of the stack in the 2465 election. And besides, check the exchange rate, which can be found at the link at the bottom of this description; we have VERY high inflation, which means our currency and economy is weak. We need to become more robust to defend ourselves as well as progress forward, and apparently our government is competent enough to manage this. We need to give the people a chance. Before anyone pulls out the argument that very rich people are exploiting the poor, may I remind you to check the law books; it is REQUIRED by Likatonian law that all corporations are run by Democratic Workers' Councils. That means that the corporations are controlled directly by the workers/people. Also, everyone is required to be in a labor union, and labor laws are very generous in Likatonia. People would not be stupid enough to exploit themselves. And if they did exploit themselves, they would end up reaping the benefits of that exploitation anyway, and thus it would be as if they were not exploited as all. So in other words, we are not creating capitalism with this bill, but syndicalism, or rule by the workers. This party feels that this is the most democratic way to manage both politics and economy. http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/rates.php FYI: to find the exchange rate, move across the vertical columns until you reach the LIK. Then, each box in that column will tell you how many LIKs are worth the corresponding currencies represented by each row. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:49:24, October 01, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Workers' Party and CTUL List | To | Debating the Private Industry, June 2463 |
| Message | Strictly opposed. |
| Date | 19:17:37, October 01, 2007 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Private Industry, June 2463 |
| Message | A good first step in the direction of economic freedom |
| Date | 00:48:43, October 02, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Private Industry, June 2463 |
| Message | If this is a gesture to test the market, is there not some more moderate position, whereby some industry could be 'private' as an experiment... whilst the rest of the industry (read, key areas, at least) observed the safety of the status quo? We cannot embrace the concept of just blindly leaping into private ownership without transition. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 312 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 354 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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