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Bill: Industry Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Spenocratic 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 2609
Description[?]:
| Government Industry is rediculous and communist. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:59:01, July 20, 2008 CET | From | Berosian Party | To | Debating the Industry Act |
| Message | While we agree that the industries should be privately owned, having the government bail out a failing business is like producing corporate welfare. We strongly oppose this. If the service the business provides is a vital service, then it wouldn't be failing, unless bigger and better businesses provided them cheaper and more efficiently. That said, this is an improvement over current legislation, but we would like to take it even further. |
| Date | 01:21:07, July 21, 2008 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Industry Act |
| Message | The Berosian party obviously have no idea what they are talking about. Let us look at water, for example: potable sources are finite, and have limits beyond which they cannot be pushed. Meanwhile, populations increase, contamination increases, and the risk of disease multiplies, should some form of contamination enter an operating water supply. As such, the cost of producing clean, drinkable water will constantly increase. Vital or otherwise, there is a limit beyond which the price of drinking water will not decline. The ONLY way costs can even be slowed, is by economy of scale - and no Likatonian business has the economies of scale that our government can claim. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 23 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 52 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life brand names (eg. Coca Cola, McDonalds, Microsoft). However, in the case of military equipment brand names it is permitted to use simple number-letter combinations (eg. T-90 and F-22) borrowed from real life, and also simple generic names, like those of animals (eg. Leopard and Jaguar). |
| Random quote: "You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money." - P. J. O'Rourke |