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Bill: Economic Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Renewal 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: September 3283
Description[?]:
| This bill will increase economic freedom. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on advertising
Old value:: All advertising is prohibited.
Current: Only advertising that meets certain set standards is permitted.
Proposed: All advertising is permitted.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates and owns all banks.
Current: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Proposed: All banks are privately owned.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Current: There are no regulations on phone service.
Proposed: There are no regulations on phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:59:09, April 03, 2012 CET | From |  Social Fascism Party | To | Debating the Economic Freedom Act |
| Message | Absolutely not. These bills were the cornerstone of our reforms which were just made into law. By reversing this, you are defying the will of the people and you are going against the verdict of the majority. |
| Date | 11:24:54, April 03, 2012 CET | From | Nanny State Party | To | Debating the Economic Freedom Act |
| Message | The proposals would create a corporatocracy and a bourgeois dictatorship led by a small minority of businessmen. We need a government for the people, not rampant unregulated capitalism in which no civilian will have any stake in the state or in society. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 64 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 169 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 68 |
| Random fact: Before creating a party organisation, check to see whether there are any existing organisations which cover the same agenda. |
| Random quote: "A democracy that does not allow limits is not a democracy. Just as a limitless freedom is not freedom, but prevarication. Indeed, any theory of freedom worthy of this name is first of all a limit theory. If we extend the unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not willing to defend a tolerant society against the attacks of the intolerants, then the tolerants will be destroyed and the tolerance with them! Because, I ask to myself and ask you, given a certain system that we call democratic, which is today the best possible system to allow everyone to live freely and to be able to express their own thoughts, how can the same system admit attacks against its integrity? How can a system refuse the principle of the self-preservation? For this reason, to suppress the apologetics of thalerrism, it's for this reason that the exaltation of exegetes, principles, facts or methods of Thallerism and its anti-democratic aims does not constitute a violation of the freedom of manifestation of thought, but, on the contrary, the celebration of that freedom. The protection of the first premise on which a modern democratic system is based. And this premise must be safeguarded also and above all against itself and its abuses." ~ Malik Astori, Leadership of Liberty and Progress (Istalia) |