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Bill: Infrastructure Bill of 2528
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kébé Front
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: March 2529
Description[?]:
| Infrastructure reforms |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Eminent Domain.
Old value:: The government may not seize private property.
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 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 encourages nuclear power (subsidies, tax relief etc).
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is partially subsidised with the remainder "user-pays".
Current: Public transport is fully subsidised by the government.
Proposed: Public transport is fully subsidised by the government.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: The State owns and operates a national TOC, alongside private TOCs.
Current: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Proposed: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:56:03, February 07, 2008 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Infrastructure Bill of 2528 |
| Message | We don't like Article 3, but the others are too good to vote no on. We'll revisit Article 3 later. |
| Date | 02:02:23, February 08, 2008 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Infrastructure Bill of 2528 |
| Message | So DN would allow the government to just up and seize private property(not buy or lease but SEIZE with absolutely NO COMPENSATION)? If one were to build a highway from point A to point B and there was private property between the two points, the government should offer at fair market value. As well, with the fourth article, it will contradict the government's policy on eminent domain. |
| Date | 04:21:16, February 08, 2008 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Infrastructure Bill of 2528 |
| Message | Yes. Yes we would. Because the government provides housing and pay for free on behalf of the people. If a railway needs to go through a house, then the people shall be moved for the benefit of the rest of society. They shall be relocated to another FREE State Housing area. Free Market has no place in Al'Badara. Free Market is an oxymoron, and leads to a road of capitalistic enslavement and perversion. The government provides new homes at no cost to the families needed to be moved. And this is only done for VITAL GOVERNMENT WORKS. No corporations. Only things that benefit the rest of society. The needs of the many outweigh the minor inconvience of the few. |
| Date | 04:45:39, February 08, 2008 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Infrastructure Bill of 2528 |
| Message | The public housing is only for the benefit of people who cannot afford housing, not for the total populace. |
| Date | 04:53:55, February 08, 2008 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Infrastructure Bill of 2528 |
| Message | And of course, with a GNP per capita of about 51000 BDR, Al'Badara is safe to say, a middle-class nation. |
| Date | 17:36:33, February 08, 2008 CET | From | (NWO) IngSoc Revolutionary League | To | Debating the Infrastructure Bill of 2528 |
| Message | "Al'Badara is safe to say, a middle-class nation." Just like all socialist republics...... We as much middle class as the soviet union. |
| Date | 20:37:41, February 08, 2008 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Infrastructure Bill of 2528 |
| Message | uh no, for one, the USSR was not socialist in any sense of the word, Al'Badara would be more in line with France (without the surrendering and the smell and the cheese). |
| Date | 22:44:54, February 08, 2008 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Infrastructure Bill of 2528 |
| Message | I prefer the French comparison. Though I would much rather a Spanish Commune comparison. Anyway, the needs of the many. Thats all we have to say. |
| Date | 23:51:19, February 08, 2008 CET | From | Kébé Front | To | Debating the Infrastructure Bill of 2528 |
| Message | OOC: I'm French, AAP. -.- |
| Date | 01:55:08, February 09, 2008 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Infrastructure Bill of 2528 |
| Message | OOC: Je suis desole (I have no idea how to put accents). (And my Quebecois French sucks, merde). |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 351 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 217 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 181 |
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