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Bill: Market Bill of 2123
Details
Submitted by[?]: Anarchist-Communist League
Status[?]: passed
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: February 2126
Description[?]:
| We hereby remove the state from intervention in the mutualist pension system and education, and decentralise health and safety legislation |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health and safety legislation for industry.
Old value:: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Current: The government recommends health and safety legislation, but they are not actively enforced on industry.
Proposed: Health and safety laws are to be determined by local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Current: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Proposed: The state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own.
Article 3
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 issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:30:14, October 11, 2005 CET | From | NeoSocialist Party | To | Debating the Market Bill of 2123 |
| Message | Great, private pensions and private education. Not even capitalist plutocracies hit their people so low. |
| Date | 05:26:09, October 11, 2005 CET | From | Anarchist-Communist League | To | Debating the Market Bill of 2123 |
| Message | The soviets will take care of themselves. Let the democratic sector control the economy. |
| Date | 08:07:34, October 11, 2005 CET | From | NeoSocialist Party | To | Debating the Market Bill of 2123 |
| Message | The Economy is never democratical, watch out your anarcho-capitalism, people are going to die in the streets because market will not give them any opportunity. |
| Date | 04:10:39, October 12, 2005 CET | From | Anarchist-Communist League | To | Debating the Market Bill of 2123 |
| Message | Not anarcho-capitalism, mutualism :) |
| Date | 06:07:47, October 14, 2005 CET | From | Revival Party | To | Debating the Market Bill of 2123 |
| Message | There are some areas in which the private sector is better at running areas, namely those areas in which real competition can be created without harming or hindering strategic sectors. The education and health laws are not from this sector and are better administered with a mixed economy. |
| Date | 14:13:41, October 14, 2005 CET | From | NeoSocialist Party | To | Debating the Market Bill of 2123 |
| Message | Education and Health Care have enormous social externalities that needs to be pursued by each government. Making schools business turn market forces to power with disastrous results, it's the "smart for one, dumb for all" principle. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 202 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 142 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 57 |
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| Random quote: Henceforth, the current system of first and second class stamps, where the rich can pay to have their mail delivered faster than the poor, shall be BANNED. There shall be only one class of mail delivery, and ALL mail shall travel at the SAME speed for EVERYBODY. There can be no class discrimination in the People's Post Office! There must be the SAME class of mail service FOR ALL! ~ Friedrich Pfeiffer General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party |