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Bill: Expansion
Details
Submitted by[?]: Goldstein Corporation
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: March 2610
Description[?]:
| »Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate: There are two ways to get a person to do a thing: force or persuasion. The government is all about force. This is why questions as to how to manage our educational policies, or our healthcare policies fuel so much debate. One policy will define the fate of everybody. When one person gets his or her way in the educational system, the healthcare system, or any other public system, it is, by default, at the expense of everyone else with different preferences and opinions. However, the free market, when not greatly intervened in by the State, works not through force, but through persuasion. No matter how much a CEO wants you to buy his or her product, he or she cannot force you to buy that product. In the free market, we are free to choose what we want. One person might want one form of computer, and one might want another. If computer distribution was up to the State, everyone would have the same computer, and no one would have free choice on the matter; this would surely spark debate because, no matter what happens, countless citizens of the majority would have to sacrifice for what will always be a minority (it just depends on which small group wields the most power at the time). The same applies to education, healthcare, and police. While it is understood that the government should fund these things and make them free because many cannot afford them, we should not socialize these institutions, but rather, allow the people the freedom to choose from whom they will receive their healthcare, their education, and their personal security. And regardless, no matter how rich or poor, these services will still, as always, remain completely free of charge to all citizens, as they are essentials. It is time we expand the free market and hand the freedom of choice back to the people of Baltusia.« ~Natasha Goldstein (Goldstein Corporation) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Current: Health care is entirely private.
Proposed: Health care is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for all citizens.
Article 2
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 does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the organization of police/law enforcement
Old value:: There is a national police department funded by the national government and there are local police departments, funded by local governments.
Current: There is a national police department funded by the national government and there are local police departments, funded by local governments.
Proposed: The government competitively subcontracts security management to private security firms.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Current: Education is entirely private and schools run on a for-profit basis.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for everyone
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 300 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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