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Bill: Radio Stations
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolutionary Army Left Movement
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: September 2465
Description[?]:
| Improving our National radio brodcast |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Proposed: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:10:32, October 03, 2007 CET | From |  Liberty Party | To | Debating the Radio Stations |
| Message | "Waste of tax payer's money. If there was a market for the services public radio would provide, then private stations will spring up and survive on a commercial basis." ~Susan Copper, Shadow Minister of Education and Culture for the Liberty Party |
| Date | 17:49:03, October 03, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Army Left Movement | To | Debating the Radio Stations |
| Message | "we already use tax payer's money for radio station, and right now no other station are allowed, so if you want them to come up, you have to permit to them to exist first" F.Bertin |
| Date | 18:02:29, October 03, 2007 CET | From | Ancient and Noble Order of the Cavaliers | To | Debating the Radio Stations |
| Message | "There is no provision in the current law forbidding private stations." -the Lord Byngham |
| Date | 18:03:24, October 03, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Army Left Movement | To | Debating the Radio Stations |
| Message | "There are no provision that they are allowed too" F.Bertin |
| Date | 18:18:53, October 03, 2007 CET | From | National Authoritarian Movement | To | Debating the Radio Stations |
| Message | OCC: @ Cavlier: It's the third time that you have a strange interpretation on what is meant by the predefined descriptions of bill-options. When nothing different is said, "The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes" means that there are no other stations. Otherwise, options like "The government subsidises independent non profit making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed." would not make any sense. |
| Date | 03:03:11, October 04, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Radio Stations |
| Message | OCC: I think I'll have to clear this up with OCC talk so....."All radio stations are owned by the state" would be the option in which no other stations are privately owned. When they say "National" state, they mean by that a Nationalized Station owned by the state exists, like the BBC, ABC, NBC to name a few. The government doesn't have to OK private stations, the bill just says it subsidizes one Nationalized Station. In the bill NAM proposes, the government will subsidize several stations that serve the same basic purpose of the one Nation Station, with private ones existing too, they put that in to show the state doesn't go round subsidizing any radio station that broadcasts the news every now and again and call that "educational services". |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 316 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 85 |
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