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Bill: The Industry Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nationalist Party of Gaduridos
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: October 2125
Description[?]:
| This Bill will allow the Government to nationalise failing industry that is vital to the survival of our people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Current: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
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 | 14:06:27, October 12, 2005 CET | From | Nationalist Party of Gaduridos | To | Debating the The Industry Act |
| Message | If the free market is unable to provide for the necessities of our Great Nation's people, then the Government MUST step in to prevent a detrimental blow to their quality of life. It is our responsibility as caretakers and protectors of our populace, to ensure that their safety and quality of life are maintained. |
| Date | 23:11:23, October 12, 2005 CET | From | National Libertarian Party | To | Debating the The Industry Act |
| Message | I have said countless times that if the population requires services, a business will show up because the demand will be so high that the business could not lose money. |
| Date | 03:33:47, October 13, 2005 CET | From | Nuovo Partito Di Machiavellian | To | Debating the The Industry Act |
| Message | We oppose this. |
| Date | 23:06:47, October 13, 2005 CET | From | Anarcho-Capitalist Front | To | Debating the The Industry Act |
| Message | If the market isn't free, then there is no point in keeping government intervention out. Due to the inability of many low profit margin industries to exist without very limited competition, they can't be free, and the consumer gets screwed. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 197 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 168 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 40 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion." - John Dalberg-Acton |