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Bill: Nationalize Transportation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Party of Beluzia and Bailon
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: November 2485
Description[?]:
| It's time for the trains to run efficiently, for Beluzians and Bailonians to have complete access to mass transit, and to protect the environment from fossil fuels. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning private cars.
Old value:: Private cars are allowed, but people are encouraged to travel collective and tax incentives are provided for cars using environmentally friendly fuels.
Current: Only cars using environmentally friendly fuels are allowed.
Proposed: Only cars using environmentally friendly fuels are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is fully user-pays.
Current: Public transport is fully subsidised for people with low-income, with the remainder "user-pays".
Proposed: Public transport is fully subsidised by the government.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: Private companies operate TOCs throughout the country.
Current: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Proposed: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:31:41, November 11, 2007 CET |
From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Nationalize Transportation Act | | Message | We agree, this is practical in articles one and two, article three however we don't agree with as it would make it impossible to run a workable transport service that was fully subsidised by the government. |
| Date | 20:13:42, November 12, 2007 CET |
From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Nationalize Transportation Act | | Message | ooc: In reality public sector industry can be necessary in impoverished and backwards places sometimes. Once there is a middle class capable of paying for such services, then privitization makes sense.
AFAIK Beluzia is a fairly affluent region as compared to others? Of course Bailon is a bit backwards, a bit of a nature paradise full of pirates and headhunters (I was thinking vanuatu or papua new guinea), but isn't Beluzia in general a 1st world post-industrial nation? |
| Date | 01:34:19, November 13, 2007 CET |
From | Communist Party of Beluzia and Bailon | To | Debating the Nationalize Transportation Act | | Message | Private transportation makes no sense, because it will leave poorer and rural areas without transportation. A national transportation system will allow the marginalized society access to the rest of the country. |
| Date | 17:01:56, November 14, 2007 CET |
From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Nationalize Transportation Act | | Message | How do taxis make money then? Mass transit is not effecient in sparsely populated areas - but this does not mean that all transportation is. Of course the economy is not 'one-size-fits-all.'
Besides, if is not economical, then why put public money into the system. Surely the taxpayers do not what the government to throw their money away. |
| Date | 19:54:15, November 14, 2007 CET |
From | Constitutional Monarchy Party | To | Debating the Nationalize Transportation Act | | Message | OOC: Labour isnt the party that they used to be... all parties fight over the centre ground these days... There is such a small diference between them and the Conservatives that Labour actually steal Tory policies!!! :O |
| Date | 17:06:11, November 15, 2007 CET |
From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Nationalize Transportation Act | | Message | ooc: The Anglosphere nations are rarely on different pages when it comes to foreign policy - France and Spain were really the only dissenting members of NATO (well, the ones that count, anyway). |
| Date | 17:37:37, November 15, 2007 CET |
From | Constitutional Monarchy Party | To | Debating the Nationalize Transportation Act | | Message | ooc: unfortunately for the Americans their foreign policy has made them extremely unpopular in Europe. The French loathe the US, and in Britain we feel bullied and betrayed. I dislike Blair for his Bush arse-licking policy. |
| Date | 18:48:48, November 16, 2007 CET |
From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Nationalize Transportation Act | | Message | ooc: Unpopular is kind of an understatement - Anti-Americanism is rampant in the UK. I remember having to show my passport on more than one occasion to convince people I wasn't just pretending to be Canadian. |
| Date | 19:27:50, November 16, 2007 CET |
From | Constitutional Monarchy Party | To | Debating the Nationalize Transportation Act | | Message | ooc- I would be willing to bet that Germany is the only country in Europe that actually like america. We of course like to have their money when they visit. But TBH it just isnt worth that much these days ;) I have a dollar on my wall, I find it odd to think its worth like fifty pence. |
| Date | 19:35:24, November 16, 2007 CET |
From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Nationalize Transportation Act | | Message | ooc: The french were very nice to me when I visited, but then the only place I can recall being treated rudely is here at home in the states, or when I visited Ireland (I am racially Celtic). When I go foreign places the novelty affect seems to go over well. |
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| Vote |
Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 331 |
| no | Total Seats: 199 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 220 |
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