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Bill: Telephone Denationalization Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Aldurian Conservative Party
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: July 2139
Description[?]:
| This bill will shift the telecommunications industry into being a privately-run but well-regulated industry. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Current: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Proposed: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:05:29, November 10, 2005 CET | From | Aldurian Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Telephone Denationalization Act |
| Message | Subside, subside. These are fundamentally injust for the middle class. The actual law are just to every one, the poor and the millionaires. We will oppose. |
| Date | 01:15:51, November 11, 2005 CET | From | United Socialist Front | To | Debating the Telephone Denationalization Act |
| Message | Why? If we give something for free, and can afford it. Why stop? If the economic situation were such that we could not afford such things, then we would either raise taxes (Keysian Economics) or lower services (Liberal Economics). As it is... do we need either? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 182 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 219 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country." - Maximilien Robespierre |