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Bill: Locomotive Nationalization
Details
Submitted by[?]: Saiserist League
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 2494
Description[?]:
| "Given the recent failure of the Locomotive Liberation bill, the Revolutionay Socialist Party has decided that the one way to guarantee progress is the country is the principled one, namely the immediate nationalization of all Train Operating Companies so as to protect Zardugal's fine train-using citizens from the capitalist threat." -Daniel Vladimirovich Feterokov, Chairman of the Revolutionary Socialist Party |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: Private companies operate TOCs throughout the country.
Current: Private companies operate regional TOC's. The national service is provided by a publicly owned, national TOC.
Proposed: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:32:09, November 30, 2007 CET | From |  National Authoritarian Movement | To | Debating the Locomotive Nationalization |
| Message | OCC: Same decision that we made on your other locomotion bill |
| Date | 03:07:58, December 01, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Locomotive Nationalization |
| Message | "And what do you extremists propose to do about all the employees who'll find themselves without a job overnight? Give them welfare?" ~James Allan, Shadow Trade and Industry Minister |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 94 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 307 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "It will be years, not in my time, before a woman will become Prime Minister." - Margaret Thatcher |