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Bill: The Local Authority for Health, Education and Welfare Act

Details

Submitted by[?]: Family and Tradition Party (disbanded)

Status[?]: passed

Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.

Voting deadline: July 2591

Description[?]:

The proposals of this legislation are as follows:

Article a) The federal department for Education and Training is to be dissolved. Management, funding, and exclusive authority regarding public schools will be delegated to local and state governments exclusively.

Article b) The federal department for Health and Social Services is to be dissolved. Management, funding, and exlusive authority regarding public hospitals, healthcare, and all welfare, will be delegated to local and state governments exclusively.

Article c) The appropriate measures for Articles a) and b) will be taken in regards to the federal budget - there will be no federal funding to the departments of Health and Social Services, and Education and Training. Upon the passing of this legislation with a majority vote, a new budget should be proposed in light of Articles a) and b). These federal departments are to be replaced accordingly by local governments, who will fund and operate the services exclusively, as they see fit, with no centralized bureaucratic standard or control.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date13:50:00, June 13, 2008 CET
From East Trigunia Company
ToDebating the The Local Authority for Health, Education and Welfare Act
MessageWe don't support handing over two whole ministries to local governments. We are pro-small government, but we really think this is going too far.

Date16:33:29, June 13, 2008 CET
From TSDRP
ToDebating the The Local Authority for Health, Education and Welfare Act
MessageThe budget ahs been proposed

Date07:22:01, June 14, 2008 CET
From Family and Tradition Party (disbanded)
ToDebating the The Local Authority for Health, Education and Welfare Act
MessageWe are sorry to hear that our good allies the Christian Soldiers have opposed this legislation - we do, of course, understand that it might be a bit extreme, but essentially, it shouldn't be. The only reason it seems extreme is because the concept of having so many federal departments for things that are essentially state responsibilities is so entrenched into most government's ways of thinking that any proposal aiming to diminish the centralized welfare state is seen as unfeasible and .
In reality, there is nothing too extreme about abolishing these federal departments, considering that there is no need for them. Education, healthcare and social services are all services that should have, essentially, always been left to local governments to administer. All this legislation does is eliminate some unneeded spending, some unnecessary bureaucracy, and further diminish the role of the central government. None of these areas - health, education, or social services - will be plunged into chaos simply because there is no federal department for them, as their state and local departments and budgets are more than capable of taking care of them without the centralized nanny state constantly looking over their shoulders.
We know it appears extreme, but we suggest that it only appears extreme because centralized bureaucracy has long been entrenched into our ways of thinking, ever since the awful invention of the welfare state was born. The central government is a regime that never goes out of power, no matter which party occupies government, it remains in power because it is now the 'norm'.
But we are looking to change this - we are looking to remind the people that it hasn't always been this way; the welfare state hasn't always been taken for granted as the only right way of organizing government and the administration of social services, and in fact, that we would be far better off without it.

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
   

Total Seats: 326

no
    

Total Seats: 229

abstain

    Total Seats: 0


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