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Bill: KSP Infrastructure Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kafuri Socialist 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: February 2517
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Eminent Domain.
Old value:: The policy regarding eminent domain is left to local governments.
Current: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Proposed: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on the nation's power grid.
Old value:: Each region owns and maintains its own power grid.
Current: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Proposed: The national grid is fully owned by the state.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Firefighting services.
Old value:: Fire prevention and management is left to the local governments.
Current: There is a national fire department, funded by the government.
Proposed: There is a national fire department, funded by the government.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on nuclear power.
Old value:: The decision is left up to local governments.
Current: The government encourages nuclear power (subsidies, tax relief etc).
Proposed: The government requires most energy to be generated by nuclear power.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the post office
Old value:: There is a nationalised post office. Private post office agencies are allowed to exist, and the services provided by them are not regulated.
Current: There is a nationalised post office. Private post office agencies are allowed to exist, and the services provided by them are not regulated.
Proposed: There is a nationalised post office agency in the nation. Private ones are banned.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Local governments decide upon the funding policy.
Current: Public transport is fully subsidised by the government.
Proposed: Public transport is fully subsidised by the government.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Renewable energy sources (eg. solar power, wind power).
Old value:: The decision on renewable energy sources is left up to local governments.
Current: Government subsidies are provided for research and generation of energy through renewable sources.
Proposed: Government subsidies are provided for research and generation of energy through renewable sources.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Current: The state contracts with private companies to provide public housing.
Proposed: The state owns and maintains all housing.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: Private companies operate TOCs throughout the country.
Current: Private companies operate regional TOC's. The national service is provided by a publicly owned, national TOC.
Proposed: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:38:15, January 13, 2008 CET | From | Republican Party of Kafuristan (KRC) | To | Debating the KSP Infrastructure Bill |
| Message | Put them up to vote! |
| Date | 06:13:10, January 15, 2008 CET | From | The Kuchifey Liberation Party (KLC) | To | Debating the KSP Infrastructure Bill |
| Message | 100% against eminent domain. |
| Date | 15:28:11, January 15, 2008 CET | From | Liberal Urban Party | To | Debating the KSP Infrastructure Bill |
| Message | Yes, it's a crime against humanity, as well as an encroachment of civil rights. |
| Date | 17:53:15, January 15, 2008 CET | From | Kafuri Socialist Party | To | Debating the KSP Infrastructure Bill |
| Message | It's only allowed for vital govt. works. You'd rather we not be able to build whatever it is that is vital to the nation because a building is there already? |
| Date | 19:34:33, January 15, 2008 CET | From | Liberal Urban Party | To | Debating the KSP Infrastructure Bill |
| Message | To the classical case, imagine your house being torn down by force...? |
| Date | 19:55:24, January 15, 2008 CET | From | Kafuri Socialist Party | To | Debating the KSP Infrastructure Bill |
| Message | Whatever the vital work needed to be done is more important than one individual house. The society as a whole is more important than a few individuals. If Kafuristan really, really needs a new airport, and the best place to put that airport currently has houses there, the best thing to do is to remove the houses and build the airport. the people forced to move will then be provided with new housing elsewhere. If all my bills passed, all the houses would actually belong to the govt. anyway. |
| Date | 21:03:32, January 16, 2008 CET | From | The Kuchifey Liberation Party (KLC) | To | Debating the KSP Infrastructure Bill |
| Message | vital, adj: full of life: full of spirit (Princeton) need, noun, verb, gerund: want: have need of (Princeton) A want that is full of life. Or, something the government really wishes it could have. This could be anything from a highway, to a nuclear arsenal, to a government owned coffee shop, 99% off for government employees. You can throw other definitions at me, but as long as this interpretation exists, we oppose eminent domain. Another reason is because we, as the PEOPLE'S party, believe in the citizen before the government. |
| Date | 00:27:12, January 17, 2008 CET | From | Kafuri Socialist Party | To | Debating the KSP Infrastructure Bill |
| Message | This is the definition of vital that would be used here. "Necessary to the existence, continuance, or well-being of something". You can't apply every possible definition of a word to every context it can be used in. For example, it's obvious that vital is not defined here as "Destructive to life; fatal:" Coffee shops are not necessary to the existence, continuance, or well-being of Kafuristan. But, whatever. Not that big of a deal. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 128 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 482 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 105 |
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