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Bill: Balanced Industry
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: February 2501
Description[?]:
| "We are striving to make a balanced, mixed economy. Certain industries are more productive if they are nationalized, and some are more productive in private hands. Actually, they are all more productive in nationalized hands, but nevertheless we strive for compromise and the rule of reason above partisanship." -Daniel Vladimirovich Feterokov, Chairman of the Revolutionary Socialist Party |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Current: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Proposed: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:48:50, December 14, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Balanced Industry |
| Message | "I can't speak for the rest of the Directory, but I'd sure like to know why you believe removing competition from an entire industry will make it more productive." ~James Allan, Shadow Trade and Industry Minister |
| Date | 11:08:26, December 14, 2007 CET | From | Saiserist League | To | Debating the Balanced Industry |
| Message | "'Competition' is a loaded word in this instance. If 'competition' was the true driving force behind productivity no policeman would walk his beat, for they have no competition. No fireman would slide down his pole, for they have no competition. A worker in an industry does not care how competitive his company is, what matters to him is advancement, which happens just as well if not better in nationalized companies than in private ones. Also, private industries are driven by the profit motive, which often leads to the incentive to cut costs with their customers. Nationalized industries have the voting motive, namely if an industry does badly it will look bad on the government so their incentive is to give their workers incentives to be productive, providing better quality service to the people. An example, a private insurance company's incentive is to find a way, a loophole, a secret clause, anything, to deny care to somebody. If a nationalized company undertook that their government would be voted out in a week, so their incentive is to perfectly fair. The fault lies with capitalistic circular reasoning, the tantalizing myth of corporate paradises and shiny stock tickers. Market laws are true, because money flow exists, and therefore money flow exists because market laws are true. Whilst studying economics at Belgae University in preparation for a public career, I read both Das Kapital and The Wealth of Nations. One made sense, the other didn't." -Trent Borisovich Kalinyev, Treasurer of the Revolutionary Socialist Party |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 77 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 324 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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