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Bill: Free Industry
Details
Submitted by[?]: Anarcho-Capitalist Front
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: February 2137
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: Defence industries are privately owned but subsidised by the state.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Health and safety legislation for industry.
Old value:: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Current: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Proposed: The government recommends health and safety legislation, but they are not actively enforced on industry.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:36:28, November 04, 2005 CET | From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Free Industry |
| Message | We respectfully disagree with all articles in the proposition. Article 1 is further continuing an already existing problem. National defense must be truly national, and that means that defense industries should not be private. However, since they are, we should subsidize them in order to have the power to focus them on projects deemed in the national interest. Article 2 is completely unfair to the health and safety of our citizens. Government is not an intermediary it is the guarantor of opportunity and fair competition, and allowing corporations to maximize profits at the risk of consumers' health and worker's safety is by no means guaranteeing opportunity or a fair playing field. Article 3 is also disagreeable because it allows this government to abandon our societies hard working poor and that is just plain wrong. This will increase the size of the poor and eliminate much opportunity for class mobility. We are willing to support Article 1 if the spending that is cut through its passage goes to support currently existing social programs. However, only if Articles 2 and 3 are taken off the bill. |
| Date | 03:35:53, November 05, 2005 CET | From | National Fascisti | To | Debating the Free Industry |
| Message | We disagree with all. |
| Date | 16:36:47, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Anarcho-Capitalist Front | To | Debating the Free Industry |
| Message | If the public is to maintain check on the government, it must possess the defense industry. If the defense industry is privately owned, there must be no subsidies given. The workers and consumers are perfectly able to protect their own wellbeing. Let them call for safe workplaces as they see necessary instead of letting government lobbyists and bureaucrats decide for them. Minimum wage does nothing to insure mobility, if anything it stagnates the economy by artificially setting a price for unskilled labor. |
| Date | 19:31:38, November 05, 2005 CET | From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Free Industry |
| Message | And what exactly would make the companies respond to workers and consumers calls for safety and health if not regulation? Nothing. These policies may seem fiscally "responsible" but only in as much as they are socially irresponsible. Privatizing defense puts it in the hands of the few profiteers not the public. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 96 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 303 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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