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Bill: Employee Self-Ownership Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei
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: April 2498
Description[?]:
The Government should NEVER "force" Democratic Worker Councils to own businesses but simply PERSUADE them. Thank you for your full support. [OOC] cf. http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/north.html (haha) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government requires all businesses to be run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:15:45, December 07, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Employee Self-Ownership Act |
| Message | Though it makes us feel like we are swallowing vomit to do so, we shall support this CWFP bill. |
| Date | 08:29:10, December 07, 2007 CET | From | Kapitalist-Arbeitsfamilien Partei | To | Debating the Employee Self-Ownership Act |
| Message | AMEN!!! |
| Date | 16:01:42, December 07, 2007 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Employee Self-Ownership Act |
| Message | A good first step in the direction of freedom. |
| Date | 18:27:51, December 07, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Employee Self-Ownership Act |
| Message | What is this 'freedom' of which the RLP speaks? We, the TDP are the only party that has any real vision of freedom - no government, no industry, no money, no fences, no houses, no medicines, no science, no state... The rest of you peddle platitudes. You promise 'freedom' but it changes from bill to bill what you mean. SOmetimes 'freedom' is where you can be, sometimes what you can do. Sometimes you use freedom to mean 'let's make this crime illegal', and yet you illegalise the legal things under the same auspices. We do not buy your concepts of freedom. You can't define them, and we'll not sell our futures for nothing more than a cloud. Take your milktoast freedoms, and admit that what you mean by them is - I want to do what I want to do. |
| Date | 22:32:23, December 07, 2007 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Employee Self-Ownership Act |
| Message | TDP - of course we admit it. The true freedom lies in being able to do what I want to do. |
| Date | 23:27:44, December 07, 2007 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the Employee Self-Ownership Act |
| Message | The FRP subscribes in a belief in negative liberty, that is, the freedom from coercion from external sources in defense of one's natural rights. We believe that government is established to protect its citizens from coercion by predatory or irresponsible forces which violate their rights. The purpose of government is to defend these rights, not to plan their people's future by restricting choices which do no harm to others' rights or persons. |
| Date | 06:49:03, December 08, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Employee Self-Ownership Act |
| Message | Oh, merciful ZEUS! Not another attack of the 'natural rights'... we've never yet seen one good argument in favour of such a thing. |
| Date | 11:19:34, December 08, 2007 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Employee Self-Ownership Act |
| Message | Natural rights is better than inalienable rights. We can see how 'unnatural rights' can exist, and how some rights are not unnatural. That notwithstanding, we will support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 255 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 267 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 144 |
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| Random quote: "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi |