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Bill: P-ARM 6: Removing the Bourgeois Institution of Government from the Lives of the People
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pan-Artanian Revolutionary Movement: DRI
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2560
Description[?]:
| The people can form the revolution themselves, they do not need patronising bureaucrats to cream off taxes as they bully the working classes. Get the government out of the lives of the people, and in the meantime, allow the people to run the government. For the Artanian People! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning adoption.
Old value:: Regulation is used to screen out only those with a previous history of child abuse.
Current: Adoption is strictly regulated by the government. Only by passing several tests and by following an intensive program applicants can adopt children.
Proposed: Adoption is not regulated.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The number of proposals a party can introduce per year (will be handed out as a monthly quota).
Old value:: 5
Current: 12
Proposed: 20
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government does not maintain any forms of higher education.
Article 4
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: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Current: There are no regulations on phone service.
Proposed: There are no regulations on phone service.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on vaccinations.
Old value:: The government mandates vaccination for all children.
Current: The government encourages vaccinations for children, but does not enforce them.
Proposed: The government takes no stand on vaccinations.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:24:58, April 12, 2008 CET | From | Lyika ati Isọdọtun | To | Debating the P-ARM 6: Removing the Bourgeois Institution of Government from the Lives of the People |
| Message | OOC: Article 4 is not even remotely communist in spirit. This "communist" revolution is a patently unrealistic exploitation of the Particracy election algorithm. |
| Date | 21:33:04, April 12, 2008 CET | From | P-TRA 1st Division | To | Debating the P-ARM 6: Removing the Bourgeois Institution of Government from the Lives of the People |
| Message | Ach, foiled again by those pesky kids... |
| Date | 04:26:44, April 13, 2008 CET | From | Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the P-ARM 6: Removing the Bourgeois Institution of Government from the Lives of the People |
| Message | The government has not protected us. While we do not agree with every article, we are willing to vote in favor, as a statement of principle. |
| Date | 06:02:41, April 13, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Ikradon (ML) | To | Debating the P-ARM 6: Removing the Bourgeois Institution of Government from the Lives of the People |
| Message | FFP - have you not read the bill title and description? This is an effort to dismantle the current government, which is merely a tool of class repression, and from its ashes create a new, egalitarian society. ooc - perhaps it is, but I think everything has been quite well explained in order to keep it realistic thus far. Besides which, even a doilum knows that a communist society is a stateless society, so article 4 is compatable with communist believes. |
| Date | 11:58:21, April 13, 2008 CET | From | Pan-Artanian Revolutionary Movement: DRI | To | Debating the P-ARM 6: Removing the Bourgeois Institution of Government from the Lives of the People |
| Message | We firmly believe that the current government apparatus is corrupt to the core. Rather than reform, we need to sweep away the old ways and build anew, with the People as the starting point, not political and economic elites. Article 4 is about returning the power to choose to the ordinary Ikradonian. The current set-up of government, by subsidising failing industries is merely giving more money to owners and shareholders of companies that mislead themselves and endanger the livelihoods of employees and customers. How would it be 'communist' to retain a back-stop for the inefficient capitalists? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 148 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 451 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players who deliberately attempt to present a misleading picture of the nation's current RP laws will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics." - W. D. Whitney |