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Bill: Phone Deregulation Act.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal-Progressive Union
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: April 2128
Description[?]:
| This prevents the government from forcing phone companies to charge a rate determined by the government. This violates the phone companies rights as a private company, and the government has no right to interfere in price setting. This is "statism" that is unhealthy in a democracy. The government has no stake at all in the phone communications industry and therefore cannot set rates that private companies must charge. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: The state regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Current: The state regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Proposed: There are no regulations on phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:53:25, October 18, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Phone Deregulation Act. |
| Message | Why is government involved in setting phone rates? |
| Date | 14:15:30, October 18, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Phone Deregulation Act. |
| Message | It is the states responsibility to protect the people. Communication companies should be nationalised |
| Date | 14:37:13, October 18, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Phone Deregulation Act. |
| Message | Telling a private company what to charge is not quite protecting the people. I would be more concerned with a government that uses totalitarian economic measures than a phone company charging a rate that puts no ones life at risk. Do people really need government protection from those evil phone companies who are hell bent on destroying the freedoms that a statist government already is imposing on a private industry.? |
| Date | 14:41:52, October 18, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Phone Deregulation Act. |
| Message | No but the people do want a government that regulates what they pay and sorts a fair price for both the people and the company (if there has to be a company) |
| Date | 14:46:28, October 18, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Phone Deregulation Act. |
| Message | It's not a public company though, it's private so the government cannot interfere in private buisness. Prices are not going to suddenly increase, the point is to attract customers by offering a better deal than the next company. |
| Date | 18:56:56, October 18, 2005 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Phone Deregulation Act. |
| Message | @L-PU: You're an American too. Remember Ma Bell? Hmmm that may be before your time as I can barely remember it. Anyways, same situation. Congress had to bust it up into smaller companies just so there would be competition and prices wouldn't soar, hence the existance of Pacific Bell, BellSouth, etc. |
| Date | 18:58:15, October 18, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Phone Deregulation Act. |
| Message | Yes, and prices are dirt cheap because of competing companies. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 169 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 231 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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