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Bill: Subsidized Public Transport
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertäre-Grüne Bewegung
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: January 3232
Description[?]:
| The logic behind this bill is the same as that behind the Health Care Solutions Act: poor citizens need support because they cannot afford basic services that they depend on even more than our wealthier citizens. In this case, there is the added motivation of encouraging use of public transportation as an environmentally sound means of transport. Rainer Beyer Minister for Infrastructure and Transport |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is fully user-pays.
Current: Public transport is partially subsidised with the remainder "user-pays".
Proposed: Public transport is fully subsidised for people with low-income, with the remainder "user-pays".
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:53:16, December 22, 2011 CET | From | Liberaldemokratische Partei | To | Debating the Subsidized Public Transport |
| Message | Public transport is not a basic service. The private companies operating trains throughout the country indeed offer considerable discounts for certain groups of people, which we consider sufficient. Jennifer Rothschild LDP Spokeswoman for Infrastructure and Transport |
| Date | 19:57:24, December 22, 2011 CET | From | Konservative Partei | To | Debating the Subsidized Public Transport |
| Message | We agree with the LDP. The LGB's logic is typically flimsy. As long as private operators exist, the incentives for them are (1) to ensure that their cost structures, and hence prices, are competitive enough so that they can actually attract customers, and (2) to price-discriminate (by offering discounts) to attract certain groups of customers. These incentives at the firm level are quite sufficient. Moreover, the empirical basis for the LGB's claims of an affordability crisis simply does not exist. - Ksenia Shundrovskaya, transport and infrastructure spokesperson for the Konservative Partei. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 131 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 174 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 195 |
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