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Bill: Privatization Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Paleofederalist 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: February 2979
Description[?]:
| Free Media |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: All radio stations are private.
Proposed: All radio stations are private.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:06:28, August 01, 2010 CET | From | Federal Constitutionalist Party | To | Debating the Privatization Act |
| Message | Looks good to us. |
| Date | 22:54:17, August 01, 2010 CET | From | Communist Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Privatization Act |
| Message | I don't know what you could possibly have against a non-profit educational and informational radio station. |
| Date | 01:45:13, August 03, 2010 CET | From | Paleofederalist Party | To | Debating the Privatization Act |
| Message | This bill will save the taxpayers some money. It will allow the market to naturally supply the type of media (perhaps educational) demanded. It will also reduce government interference in the lives of our people. What could you possibly have against this bill? |
| Date | 18:10:47, August 03, 2010 CET | From | Rerum Novarum Party | To | Debating the Privatization Act |
| Message | OOC: Kyle. Too much Starcraft. =p |
| Date | 23:32:08, August 03, 2010 CET | From | Communist Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Privatization Act |
| Message | Profit motives for news and educational stations that would be interfered by advertising and a craving for profit rather than the purposes it sets out to provide. Save the taxpayers money? The rich saving a fraction of a fraction of their taxes on a useful and helpful tool that is a benefit for all Darnussians, rather than the profit driven Plutocracy you right-wingers wish to provide. It will also reduce government interference in the lives of our people. By subsiding a radio station for informational and educational purposes for the benefit of the people, that somehow constitutes an evil Bolshevist, Stalinist state? In no way does having this station make the government "interfere" in our lives. People pay taxes for things like this: things that serve the public for the common good, not profit. Greed, greed and greed. That's all that drives you people. |
| Date | 02:48:23, August 04, 2010 CET | From | Rerum Novarum Party | To | Debating the Privatization Act |
| Message | OOC: "Profit motives for news and educational stations that would be interfered by advertising and a craving for profit rather than the purposes it sets out to provide." Nature Magazine, Discovery channel, Science, etc. These are profit publications, however they do not slur facts for profit because when people want to be informed they want the truth. They don't want to pay to be lied to. "Save the taxpayers money? The rich saving a fraction of a fraction of their taxes on a useful and helpful tool that is a benefit for all Darnussians, rather than the profit driven Plutocracy you right-wingers wish to provide." We have a sales tax, the poor need to buy food it'll affect them as well. "It will also reduce government interference in the lives of our people. By subsiding a radio station for informational and educational purposes for the benefit of the people, that somehow constitutes an evil Bolshevist, Stalinist state? In no way does having this station make the government "interfere" in our lives." No, but it doesn't guarantee truth. It's hard to publicly denounce a government which signs your cheque. "People pay taxes for things like this: things that serve the public for the common good, not profit." But it isn't necessarily for the common good at all. it presumes that people will have guaranteed access to it and that it will provide the truth. "Greed, greed and greed. That's all that drives you people." We're not the one making profit. Stop strawmaning or go home. |
| Date | 11:10:33, August 04, 2010 CET | From | Communist Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Privatization Act |
| Message | Yeah, but you're wanting the opportunity to make a profit out of this. |
| Date | 04:07:51, August 05, 2010 CET | From | Rerum Novarum Party | To | Debating the Privatization Act |
| Message | OCC: That's a: the vested interest fallacy. b: a lie. |
| Date | 17:25:28, August 05, 2010 CET | From | Buidheann Saorsa | To | Debating the Privatization Act |
| Message | Ding ding ding! We have a winner. |
| Date | 23:13:53, August 06, 2010 CET | From | Communist Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Privatization Act |
| Message | Fine. Sit in denial. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 133 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 42 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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