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Bill: NP Economics Reform Bill
Details
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: March 3039
Description[?]:
| Reforms the economy to bring it more in line with what the people of Lodamun have historically supported and craved. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Current: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Employers are free to fire workers who go on strike.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is legal but not recognized under government employment regulation policy.
Current: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Proposed: Prostitution is illegal.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers, except certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society, have the right to strike.
Current: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Proposed: All strikes are illegal.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Current: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Proposed: Trade unions are illegal.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to the production of pornography.
Old value:: The production of pornography is treated as any other business.
Current: The production of pornography is legal, but regulated.
Proposed: Pornography may not be produced in the nation.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:45:44, December 01, 2010 CET | From | People's Commonwealth Party | To | Debating the NP Economics Reform Bill |
| Message | The People's Commonwealth Party cannot tolerate the abominable treatment of workers that is proposed in this ridiculous bill! The working class is the backbone of our economy and should be treated with respect and allowed to express themselves and assemble! -------------------------------------- Articles 1 and 5 - If a worker sees fit that they must withhold their greatest resource, the work they produce from their own minds and hands, then they have the right to do so. By outlawing strikes, you are essentially saying the workers are property of the private sector, like slavery! Though the P.C.P. does find strikes to have many negative effects as well and should only be considered as a last resort, if the National Party were introduce a bill that gave control of production to the workers, I believe you'd find that strikes would vanish all together and you wouldn't have to create a police state to manage the economy. Article 2 - As society is, unions are the best ability for workers to assemble and represent themselves within the workplace and we find open abolishment of them to be an inappropriate and aggressive act towards the working class! The People's Party believes the divide between the employers and workers to be counter productive and in the end unions do not remedy this major problem. As we mentioned before, cooperative ownership of the industry by workers would solve the authority gap and render unions unnecessary. Article 3 - Though the Commonwealth Party cannot consider ourselves crusaders in defense of pornography, as it is at current times a rather sketchy industry, we think the banning of its production is frivolous moralism that will only enrage the public. Does the NP honestly believe that if the industry is destroyed that people will not produce their own pornography? The Party proposes that pornography be regulated by the government to at least give some civility to the industry rather than attempt to fustily irradiate it all together. Article 4 - Our stance here is almost identical with Article 3 and that the current value is satisfactory. -------------------------------------- The People's Commonwealth Party also believes this bill to be a misnomer as half of the bill has more to do with societal moralism rather than the economics of our country. -------------------------------------- "It's almost like they are trying to be controversial Fascists on purpose..." - Emera Lucris, Industrial Chairman of the People's Commonwealth Party |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 750 |
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| Random quote: "Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone" - Kenneth Minogue |