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Bill: Market Liberalization Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberaldemokratische Allianz
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 2802
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:14:34, August 13, 2009 CET | From | Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei | To | Debating the Market Liberalization Act |
| Message | Overtly against. This is a very radical non-interventionist in the economy proposal, we have a centrist policy in place and there is absolutely no reason to change it. |
| Date | 10:19:14, August 13, 2009 CET | From | Liberaldemokratische Allianz | To | Debating the Market Liberalization Act |
| Message | There's no reason why, failing to succeed as a private business, a nationalized entity will become anything but a black hole for the taxpayer's money. |
| Date | 10:34:40, August 13, 2009 CET | From | Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei | To | Debating the Market Liberalization Act |
| Message | The ultimate decision to nationalize a failing business would be up to the Ministers of Trade & Industry and Finance; note the current law specifically states that only failing industries that provide *vital* goods or services would be subject to nationalization. Notice the vital part, the national government is not helping out everyone. The FAP is open to a resolution detailing the role of government in the market relating to our current law instead of voting to shut the government (the Imperial Diet and the cabinet) completely out. The only law that would really stick it to the taxpayers would be the "any business who goes bankrupt will get government subsidies" option; that law means that every business that fails we need to automatically bail out giving the government no decision or say if they want to do it or not. It is a last resort to help failing businesses in the current law, in the one I just told you it is the only option. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 369 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 356 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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