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Bill: Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union Party
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: July 2486
Description[?]:
| An act to provide phone services to all citizens, with the cost assumed by the government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families but does not regulate the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Current: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Proposed: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:18:58, November 12, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act |
| Message | Telephone lines are a necessity in today's world. Long distance calls would still be charged to the citizen, but the phone line itself, and local calls, would be free of charge. We propose this for safety reasons. All people should have facility to call upon emergency services. |
| Date | 14:42:13, November 12, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act |
| Message | WOA!! no. Opposed. |
| Date | 12:53:13, November 13, 2007 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act |
| Message | Free of charge? What are we? Santa? |
| Date | 14:56:31, November 13, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act |
| Message | *Looks over* Well some members of this legislature could pass as one :D |
| Date | 11:50:03, November 14, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act |
| Message | We provide free healthcare. We provide free education. We provide free public transport. This is no different. |
| Date | 17:20:15, November 14, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act |
| Message | Not everything can be free. |
| Date | 18:23:20, November 14, 2007 CET | From | One Nation Socialist Party | To | Debating the Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act |
| Message | why not? |
| Date | 18:24:14, November 14, 2007 CET | From | One Nation Socialist Party | To | Debating the Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act |
| Message | i mean shouldn't we all have the right, the freedom to converse with whoever we want? this bill gives us a positive freedom to do that |
| Date | 21:46:14, November 14, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act |
| Message | We are not a socialist state. |
| Date | 00:31:42, November 15, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Telecommunications (Subsidies) Amendment Act |
| Message | Actually we are. That is a good thing. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 213 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 286 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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