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Bill: National Bolshevik Manifesto for 2535
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Bolshevik 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: August 2536
Description[?]:
| This is the next step in our gradual conversion to communism. |
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 Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining shelters.
Current: Every public building is required to feature provisions for civil defence, but there is no requirement for shelters to be open to the public.
Proposed: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Proposed: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families but does not regulate the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Current: There are no regulations on phone service.
Proposed: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:25:05, February 22, 2008 CET | From |  Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the National Bolshevik Manifesto for 2535 |
| Message | The ERF does not believe that centralization will bring us anywhere close to true communism. |
| Date | 12:58:33, February 22, 2008 CET | From | Red Dawn | To | Debating the National Bolshevik Manifesto for 2535 |
| Message | We concur with this agenda, hands down. |
| Date | 14:38:04, February 22, 2008 CET | From | Boston Tea Party | To | Debating the National Bolshevik Manifesto for 2535 |
| Message | What we need is further decentralization, not this. |
| Date | 16:14:25, February 22, 2008 CET | From | Yellow Party | To | Debating the National Bolshevik Manifesto for 2535 |
| Message | No way. |
| Date | 17:30:55, February 22, 2008 CET | From | Peoples' Liberation Front | To | Debating the National Bolshevik Manifesto for 2535 |
| Message | the NBP has the right idea |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 164 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 295 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 140 |
| Random fact: Terra, the fictional world in which Particracy is set, consists of 8 continents: Artania, Dovani, Keris, Makon, Majatra, Seleya, Temania and Vascania. |
| Random quote: "The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too." - Oscar Levant |