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Bill: Telephone Anti Price-Gauging Bill

Details

Submitted by[?]: People's Revolutionary Communist 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: May 3164

Description[?]:

The telecommunications industry features high barriers of entry, infrastructure and overhead pushing out smaller competitors and creating a handful of larger monopolistic corporations that are able to price-gauge consumers. The following proposal seeks to curb price-gauging:

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date18:19:01, August 08, 2011 CET
FromBaltusian Freedom Party
ToDebating the Telephone Anti Price-Gauging Bill
MessageThe only barriers to enter the market are that of government. Government licensing who can and cants open a phone service business and then regulations and taxes that cripple existing businesses. More government involvement will simply help current big companies maintain their monopolies because the government is crushing the competition for them.

I will not allow us to do the dirty work of monopolies.

We reject.

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
   

Total Seats: 171

no
    

Total Seats: 229

abstain
 

Total Seats: 0


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