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Bill: Contract with Likatonia
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's 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: May 2100
Description[?]:
| To reenergize the body politic, and reaffirm Likatonia's heritage of economic freedom, the People's Party is calling for broad sweeping reforms in the following areas. The proposal as it stands is for debate, and we will prune proposals and accomodate all those who wish to have a say. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on subsidising contraception.
Old value:: The government subsidises a considerable discount for contraceptives.
Current: The government does not supply free or discounted contraceptives.
Proposed: The government does not supply free or discounted contraceptives.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Current: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Proposed: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning genetically modified (GM) crops.
Old value:: Production and selling of GM crops is banned. Research is allowed.
Current: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Proposed: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Article 4
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: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Proposed: All radio stations are private.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The funding of sports clubs.
Old value:: The government funds some sports clubs side-by-side with private ones.
Current: The government does not fund sports clubs; only private ones are allowed.
Proposed: The government does not fund sports clubs; only private ones are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:20:00, August 19, 2005 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the Contract with Likatonia |
| Message | The only one I disagree with is Article 6. I think that some information should be kept in public domain. You can't completely trust private publishers. |
| Date | 14:27:57, August 19, 2005 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the Contract with Likatonia |
| Message | Besides the previous point, in regards to Article 6, I believe that some works are either so famous or so important that the people should have free access to them. Libraries also serve as a good place to keep copies of public record. I suggest giving use of the record archives for free to all citizens, while placing a charge on the use of the library for literary works. |
| Date | 15:39:58, August 19, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Contract with Likatonia |
| Message | I agree with the CCU on this, Public Libraries are an integral feature of any cultured society. They not only serve to allow the populace access to information, but provide a meeting place to discuss and process the information thus obtained. They will, in many cases, increase the eventual sales of books by exposing the patrons to new authors who they can try out before adding to thier own collecctions, as well as older works which are out of print. |
| Date | 07:21:20, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Right Wing Liberals Party | To | Debating the Contract with Likatonia |
| Message | Proposals1,2,7 I cannot support 3,4,5,6 3=There is no need to pollute Likatonians with this foul unnatural product.If another nation had a drought then we could pass this junk off to them 4=Bit either way though similar to 6 5= the Government must control the water! 6=Libraries at Local Government are a useful source of information.And a National library is great AlexanderTurnbull or the one at Alexandria. |
| Date | 09:05:31, August 20, 2005 CET | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Contract with Likatonia |
| Message | Ok now that I have a few comments, i'll try to answer them all.. I'm a little dissapointed that I didn't get the support for the library bill, but that's not a major stumbling block. How about some kind of compromise whereby the govt can contract libraries to the private sector? Would that be acceptable to all parties? Moving on to RWL- Proposal 3 merely aims at harnessing the power of new research in biotech. Such technology can be a great boon to farmers across the nation. I don't see why you call it junk! 4 is rather simple we don't really need a public radio station....whatever news we want to give the Likatonian people is already carried by private stations...and nobody listens to documentaries anyway. 5 is an understandable objection...what if we govt contracts with the private sector? Would that be acceptable to you? |
| Date | 09:06:03, August 20, 2005 CET | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Contract with Likatonia |
| Message | Oh and I already mentioned about the libraries thing tell me what you think of that as well |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 131 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 56 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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