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Bill: Prosperity
Details
Submitted by[?]: Zapatista Army of National Liberation
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: December 2103
Description[?]:
| Comrade, the people demand this of you. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Curfew policy (curfew time to be determined in the bill description).
Old value:: No curfew policies may be established.
Current: The national government may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Proposed: No-one may use streets or public property beyond the curfew time.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: The state owns all defence industries.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on the separation of the police and the military.
Old value:: A civilian police force is in place and the military is not allowed to play any part in it.
Current: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Proposed: The military acts as a de-facto police force, with powers of arrest.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term of civilian national service.
Proposed: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term in the military.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government. However, the provision of this is not to exceed a certian period of time.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:05:49, August 29, 2005 CET | From | Beach Party | To | Debating the Prosperity |
| Message | NO. |
| Date | 11:05:05, August 29, 2005 CET | From |  CCP | To | Debating the Prosperity |
| Message | Honorable Colleagues, We offer out most sincere welcome to our new Colleagues, the Stalinist Front. |
| Date | 12:19:37, August 29, 2005 CET | From | Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Prosperity |
| Message | We oppose, no comments. |
| Date | 12:24:39, August 29, 2005 CET | From | Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Prosperity |
| Message | I must say I don't really like the way how this party wants to enforce those proposals to the national forum. |
| Date | 06:21:06, August 30, 2005 CET | From | Please Delete Party | To | Debating the Prosperity |
| Message | We would all like to to have such radical, exciting stances, but somehow they just don't get passed/make sense |
| Date | 05:31:29, August 31, 2005 CET | From | Socialist Party (Rildanor) | To | Debating the Prosperity |
| Message | We like point 1,2 and 6. We reject the rest. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 99 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Culturally Open nations can adopt advisory/non-enforceable Nation Descriptions. See http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6242 |
| Random quote: "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire |