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Bill: Universal Phone Service Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Populist Liberal 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 2117
Description[?]:
| Whereas, phone service tends to be a monopoly, and people right now are being gouged, and Whereas, it is essential that everyone have a phone to, for example, look for a job, We hereby propose that phone lines shall be provided free to all citizens. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: There are no regulations on phone service.
Current: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Proposed: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:17:40, September 27, 2005 CET | From |  Kanjoran People's Party | To | Debating the Universal Phone Service Act |
| Message | I would seek middle ground on this one. |
| Date | 02:33:39, September 27, 2005 CET | From | Populist Liberal Party | To | Debating the Universal Phone Service Act |
| Message | If it seems that middle ground can pass, we will compromise. If it seems like even a middle ground is doomed to failure, we'll go all the way with it, as we believe that natural monopoly utilities should ideally be publicly owned, and if we can't pass the middle ground anyway, we may as well show the voters where we really stand. |
| Date | 16:14:01, September 27, 2005 CET | From | Nationalist Freedom Party | To | Debating the Universal Phone Service Act |
| Message | This is being proposed by the same party that wishes to raise taxes because we have a deficit? Yet you plunge is further into economic chaos by restricting the market and paying huge amounts to subsidise the phone bills, a luxury item in my view. |
| Date | 16:23:29, September 27, 2005 CET | From | Populist Liberal Party | To | Debating the Universal Phone Service Act |
| Message | A telephone is not a luxury item. As mentioned, if you don't have a place to call back, you can't look for a job successfully. It is also needed to call 911 for medical care, and various other "non-luxury" things. Even the other uses, being things most of us take for granted, are things we would prefer not to see others have to do without. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 257 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 342 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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