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Bill: PPS- Economic Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Peasant Party Of Sekowo
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: August 2520
Description[?]:
| Some Positive Changes to the Management of the economy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Current: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Proposed: The government operates and owns all banks.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign investments.
Old value:: Foreign investors may invest in national companies, but may not get a majority share.
Current: Foreign investors need to obtain government approval for all investments in national companies.
Proposed: Foreign investors need to obtain government approval for all investments in national companies.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Current: The government encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Proposed: The government encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Trade union strike ballots.
Old value:: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Current: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Proposed: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, majority approval of those that vote is needed from its members.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Proposed: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:33:55, January 21, 2008 CET | From |  Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the PPS- Economic Bill |
| Message | We are ok with most of these, making it go either way for us, but once we got to the positive discrimination, we had to go no defenitivly. |
| Date | 19:13:01, January 21, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the PPS- Economic Bill |
| Message | If the government operates all banks, there is no consumer choice. Article 5 is racism, as is article 1. |
| Date | 21:28:14, January 21, 2008 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the PPS- Economic Bill |
| Message | We shall have to abstain. |
| Date | 03:37:42, January 22, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the PPS- Economic Bill |
| Message | Article 1; We really don't care, but we like how it is now. Article 2; A centrally planned economy does'nt work, plus there's no need to run all banks, just regulate them from practicing unfair/bad things. Article 3; We like it how it is now. Article 4; We support this. Article 5; We do not agree with any kind of discrimination. Therefore we are abstaining. |
| Date | 17:00:31, January 22, 2008 CET | From | Peasant Party Of Sekowo | To | Debating the PPS- Economic Bill |
| Message | Are you a socialist in name only? because what you are advocating is barely social democracy. |
| Date | 17:07:28, January 22, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the PPS- Economic Bill |
| Message | In the near term we are a Social democratic party that favours Keynesian economics, we however have a long term goal of the transformation of Sekowo into a true Democratic Socialist soceiety. |
| Date | 17:14:13, January 22, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the PPS- Economic Bill |
| Message | We're also civil libertarians and quasi market socialists. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 429 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 321 |
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