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Bill: PSFA Privitising TOCs Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance
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: May 2542
Description[?]:
| To take them away from the government, and put them back in the hands of the people of Sekowo |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: The State owns and operates a national TOC, alongside private TOCs.
Current: The State owns and operates a national TOC, alongside private TOCs.
Proposed: Private companies operate TOCs throughout the country.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:03:17, March 05, 2008 CET | From |  帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the PSFA Privitising TOCs Bill |
| Message | The government is elected by and made up of the hands of the people of Sekowo, besides private ones are allowed to exist as it is, the national one simply allows for free or affordable transport. |
| Date | 07:22:41, March 05, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the PSFA Privitising TOCs Bill |
| Message | DSP, the national TOC does not offer free transit as stated in Sekowan law: it is partially subsidised with the remainder "user-pays". We see a competitive advantage to offering multiple options of train transport. We are leaning towards opposing. |
| Date | 07:57:52, March 05, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the PSFA Privitising TOCs Bill |
| Message | It used to before the capitalists decided that people should have to pay the taxes to build them and ride them. |
| Date | 08:46:04, March 05, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the PSFA Privitising TOCs Bill |
| Message | If we do not charge people to use the transit system, therefore providing free service, the government foots the bills. If the government foots the bill, the taxes have to increase to cover the bill. If the taxes have to increase, the people will get annoyed at the one who originally said that we should increase taxes to pay for the transit system. If the DSP will gladly step forward into the crowd of higher taxed people, then by all means, we will stand back and watch. |
| Date | 09:37:56, March 05, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the PSFA Privitising TOCs Bill |
| Message | We support; competition is a good thing, and we absolutely hate public transport systems where the user gets charged twice: once in taxes, and then again at the till. |
| Date | 23:15:59, March 05, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the PSFA Privitising TOCs Bill |
| Message | It is unfair for taxpayers to pay for services that they do not use |
| Date | 01:32:11, March 06, 2008 CET | From | Peasant Party Of Sekowo | To | Debating the PSFA Privitising TOCs Bill |
| Message | Taxpayers do use them. How do you think commodities are shipped in this country? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 265 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 242 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 93 |
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