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Bill: Progressive Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Capitalist 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 2508
Description[?]:
| We do not believe that children should be exposed to adult material. This will have an adverse effect on the underlying morals of our society in the future. Competition will increase efficiency. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The time at which sexually explicit content may be shown on broadcast television (if allowed).
Old value:: Sexually explicit content may only be shown during hours that very few children watch. Nudity may be shown all day long.
Current: Sexually explicit content or nudity may only be shown during hours that very few children watch television
Proposed: Sexually explicit content or nudity may only be shown during hours that very few children watch television
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Current: The State owns and operates a national TOC, alongside private TOCs.
Proposed: Private companies operate TOCs throughout the country.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:21:52, December 22, 2007 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Progressive Bill |
| Message | Nudity is not a problem and we should not be squeamish about allowing our children to see nudity, it causes no harm. In regards article 2, it has been shown time and time again that allowing private TOC's to operate rail services harms those services provided. Why would a company operate a branch line that makes a loss when it can operate a highspeed long distance service at a profit? Moreover, this bill does nothing to introduce regulations on those operations, nor does it show how those TOC's are supposed to compete. To use a hypothetical example: Two companies operate services between Astoria City to New Krupskya. The most profitable service will depart from Astoria City at 6:15, which company gets to operate that service? There is only a single track so only one company can operate that service, which does? Does the company that does not operate the service get compensation? Who pays for it? Railways are not roads, you can't run a trains one after another with no gaps between them. They are heavy, fast things that require large breaking distances. Our HSDT's require over a mile to stop from their maximum speed and that is from an efficient well maintained train, we cannot guarantee such maintenance to be continued by the private companies so gaps would have to be increased between services to guarantee public safety reducing service slots and thusly competition. Who owns the infrastructure, the rolling stock, etc? This bill has not been thought through nor has it made any attempt at providing evidence how such a system would operate. The only way Private companies can make rail systems work is by owning majority shares in routes and by doing so it removes the incentives with which the SCP is trying to expand services, that of competition. Passenger rail services do not make profits without massive cuts to service quantity and quality and to expect anything else is just foolhardy. |
| Date | 16:01:24, December 22, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Hobrazia | To | Debating the Progressive Bill |
| Message | We cannot agree to this bill as it is proposing to take Hobrazia's rail service away from the people and hand it to big buiness capitalists who will only exploit the people for profit and gain. |
| Date | 14:17:05, December 28, 2007 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Progressive Bill |
| Message | We could have supported article 1 but since you added the second article we must vote no on this one. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 137 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 263 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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