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Bill: National reform 1
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Sizpoao Comrade RevolutionRedArmy
Status[?]: passed
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: August 2512
Description[?]:
| National reform 1 |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards space exploration.
Old value:: The government shall operate a space agency that contracts with and oversees private space-exploration companies.
Current: The government shall fully fund a state-owned space agency which controls all national space-related activity.
Proposed: The government shall fully fund a state-owned space agency which controls all national space-related activity.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:28:55, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the National reform 1 |
| Message | I most whole heartly agree |
| Date | 18:08:38, January 05, 2008 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the National reform 1 |
| Message | Private is better |
| Date | 18:44:59, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the National reform 1 |
| Message | the Goverment is more likely to be able to get the resources and funds for space exploration than any corporation. |
| Date | 19:13:03, January 05, 2008 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the National reform 1 |
| Message | why? |
| Date | 19:17:47, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the National reform 1 |
| Message | It is larger, more able to pool the resources and more willing to take the initial upfront cost. I am not saying that at some future date, that private companies may or may not be involved. But at this time, I think it should be the domain of the nation as a whole as opposed to the few. |
| Date | 19:29:11, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Beluzia and Bailon | To | Debating the National reform 1 |
| Message | The government also has the ability to pay for the massive costs of space exploration through taxes... |
| Date | 19:56:24, January 05, 2008 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the National reform 1 |
| Message | Taxes are a bad thing, they punish the working man for the whimsey's of their bourgeois marxist oppressors. |
| Date | 20:07:53, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the National reform 1 |
| Message | not always, one could look at taxes as a way to redistrubite monies from those that have to those that need. |
| Date | 21:29:41, January 05, 2008 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the National reform 1 |
| Message | like I said... |
| Date | 13:45:36, January 06, 2008 CET | From | United Sizpoao Comrade RevolutionRedArmy | To | Debating the National reform 1 |
| Message | yes government can support more |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 471 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 111 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 168 |
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