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Bill: Public Transport Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Popular Socialist Liberation Movement
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: November 2740
Description[?]:
| PSLM consider that government should ensure the right of Rutanian citizens to travel within our country by subsidizing public transport for people with low income. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Local governments decide upon the funding policy.
Current: Local governments decide upon the funding policy.
Proposed: Public transport is fully subsidised for people with low-income, with the remainder "user-pays".
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:57:13, April 10, 2009 CET | From | spencer green Party | To | Debating the Public Transport Act |
| Message | OK i support this bill. |
| Date | 15:10:38, April 10, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Heritage Party | To | Debating the Public Transport Act |
| Message | We see no reason for this to become a federal issue. |
| Date | 04:38:52, April 11, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Restoration Party | To | Debating the Public Transport Act |
| Message | Neither do we. Opposed. |
| Date | 10:15:32, April 11, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Elitist Party | To | Debating the Public Transport Act |
| Message | ibid |
| Date | 20:03:46, April 12, 2009 CET | From | Popular Socialist Liberation Movement | To | Debating the Public Transport Act |
| Message | Maybe we should change motto of Rutania from "Liberty, Prosperity, and Individuality" to "Slavery, Poverty and Individuality". Now in "free"-market Rutania poor people are slaves of large monopolistic corporations. They even haven't freedom of movement (if they haven't enough money) and Rutanian government refuses to grant him this freedom! |
| Date | 01:33:16, April 13, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Heritage Party | To | Debating the Public Transport Act |
| Message | How are tax-payer subsidized train-tickets for the poor considered 'freedom', by any stretch of the imagination? There is no freedom that is not embodied in the constitution, or in some other institution of our civilized society. In addition, 'freedoms', properly understood, require the compliance of others in simply not infringing on them, yet the 'freedom' the 'PSLM' have described requires others not to refrain from something, but to actively pay for something by government mandate. There is no freedom that others need to pay to protect. The 'Rutanian Heritage Party', therefore, does not recognize that the 'freedom to ride the train for free' exists, and we argue that the 'PSLM' have conflated 'freedom' with 'obligation'. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 242 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 53 |
| Random fact: Moderation reserves the discretion to declare RP laws invalid if the players supporting them are doing so in an excessively confrontational way. |
| Random quote: "The main problem of the left is that it has been traditionally divided and unable to reach agreements between different leftist views, whilst the right has almost always moved in the same direction by giving concessions to different rightist points of view." - Aelius Celer, former Selucian politician |