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Bill: M.A.R.C. #52: "Telephone Service Reform Act"
Details
Submitted by[?]: Medrisite-Associated Revisionist Council
Status[?]: passed
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: August 3308
Description[?]:
| "We cannot afford to throw away money providing all citizens with free telephone service. The M.A.R.C. is willing to subsidize the cost for those who cannot afford it, but those who have the means must pay like everybody else." |
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 but does not regulate the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:39:28, May 22, 2012 CET | From |  Coalition of CEOs | To | Debating the M.A.R.C. #52: "Telephone Service Reform Act" |
| Message | We agree with removing the communist reforms that were passed by the previous government. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 133 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 67 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." - Oscar Wilde |