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Bill: Liberalization Plan - Phase One Act

Details

Submitted by[?]: Classical Liberal Party

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: August 2822

Description[?]:

Liberalization Plan - Phase One

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date06:56:09, September 22, 2009 CET
FromClassical Liberal Party
ToDebating the Liberalization Plan - Phase One Act
MessageThe Conservative Party is back! And it is NEW and improved! The Conservative Party's policy on social issues has changed from conservative to liberal, minarchist and progressive. Hello all!

Date05:30:24, September 24, 2009 CET
FromPaleoconservative Party
ToDebating the Liberalization Plan - Phase One Act
MessageThe Paleoconservative Party (henceforth referred to as the PCP) would first like to express their confusion over the naming of this bill. The general theme of the bill appears to be deregulation of business and privatization of government services – hardly what one would ordinarily call liberal measures.

The PCP endorses several of these measures that the New Conservative Party has proposed. Among them is Article 1, which we hope shall be the first step in our nation’s stride towards the full illegalization of all contraception. In addition, we also support the inclusion of Article 5 in this bill; the failure of any industry is proof that it has outlived its usefulness, and that businessmen involved in such an industry ought to cut their losses and find another line of work more relevant to the times. We also approve of Article 2 in the second phase of this bill; keeping health care privatized will ensure its continued quality of service. There is one, however, that we find absolutely barbarous. Article 6 proposes that our nation abolish all minimum wage laws. While we certainly oppose the Christian Socialist Party’s attempts to bankrupt small businesses by raising the minimum wage to absurd levels, we also have no desire to starve people of the working-class who would be at the mercy of their employers were this bill granted approval by the Imperial Congress. As we support this bill only partially, in the interest of remaining consistent with our party’s platform of lightly restrained capitalism, we shall abstain from voting.

Date07:16:51, September 24, 2009 CET
FromClassical Liberal Party
ToDebating the Liberalization Plan - Phase One Act
MessageOOC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism

IC: We, the New Conservative Party would like to inform the Paleoconservative Party that they must be extremely naive to think that these are not liberal measures; free markets, neoliberalism and economic liberalism are all the economic aspects of classical liberalism, and therefore are liberal. Whilst we agree with the Paleoconservative Party's decision to support some Articles of this bill, we strongly disagree with their claims over this bill's abolishment of minimum wage laws. It is clear that opposers of no-minimum-wage-laws do not understand basic and fundamental economic principles. Minimum wages cause large-scale unemployment, particularly amongst low-income and unskilled populations, the very people the opposers are claiming to protect. A minimum wage law does not only form a major cause of unemployment, but also leads to higher turnover, less training and fewer fringe benefits. The absence of minimum wage laws provides for the efficient working of the price mechanism and allows the marketplace to do its fantastic work. The absence of such laws increases competition for jobs, and therefore the "price" of jobs increases. People have to be more educated and more skilled than anyone else to get more rewarding and better-paying jobs. Surely the Paleoconservative Party is not against education and up-skilling? Surely they are not against the betterment of our economic performance and living standards? By abstaining or voting no, parties are voting against education, against a more efficient economy, against higher living standards, against the better communication facilities of the price mechanism, against job stability, and most importantly, against freedom.

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Total Seats: 324

no
 

Total Seats: 76

abstain
  

Total Seats: 0


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