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Bill: Wiping Out Communism 3364
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Liberal Pinks
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 3364
Description[?]:
| It's time for this farce to stop, it's time for our nation to be allowed to flourish again. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Current: The government operates and owns all banks.
Proposed: All banks are privately owned.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state guarantees child benefit to all families.
Current: The state guarantees child benefit to both low-income families and large families.
Proposed: The state guarantees child benefit to families classified as low-income or poor.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs but does not regulate their prices.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on the nation's power grid.
Old value:: A single private company owns and maintains the national power grid.
Current: Each region owns and maintains its own power grid.
Proposed: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: Health care is entirely private.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on internet service providers (ISPs).
Old value:: The state owns and operates a national internet service provider, alongside private ISPs.
Current: The state owns and operates a national internet service provider, alongside private ISPs.
Proposed: Private companies provide internet service throughout the nation, without government interference.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government. However, the provision of this is not to exceed a certian period of time.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Current: The state regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Proposed: There are no regulations on phone service.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards police presence.
Old value:: The police patrol public property at all times.
Current: The police patrol public property at all times.
Proposed: Presence of the police is left to the local governments.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of pollution in industry.
Old value:: The government enforces highly restrictive industrial pollution standards.
Current: The government provides pollution prevention guidelines, but does not enforce them.
Proposed: Industrial pollution is not regulated by the government.
Article 11
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the post office
Old value:: There is a nationalised post office agency. Private post offices are allowed to exist but the services provided by them are regulated.
Current: There is a nationalised post office agency. Private post offices are allowed to exist but the services provided by them are regulated.
Proposed: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are regulated.
Article 12
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Current: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Proposed: Pre-school education is private, but the government covers the schoolcosts of poor families.
Article 13
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Current: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Proposed: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Article 14
Proposal[?] to change The government's position towards the stock exchange(s).
Old value:: Stock exchanges are allowed but are regulated.
Current: Stock exchanges are allowed but are regulated.
Proposed: Stock exchanges are allowed and are unregulated.
Article 15
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: The State owns and operates a national TOC, alongside private TOCs.
Current: Private companies operate regional TOC's. The national service is provided by a publicly owned, national TOC.
Proposed: Private companies operate regional TOC's. The national service is provided by a publicly owned, national TOC.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:48:57, September 12, 2012 CET | From |  Social Activist Party | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | Yes the hater of the people wants to transfer power back to the elite coprations. healtchcare is a human right you fool. stock exchanges NEED to be regulated. i will not allow some people damage everyone elses lives because of them gambling on the market. |
| Date | 01:55:37, September 12, 2012 CET | From | Social Activist Party | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | remind me why we serve in the same cabinet? |
| Date | 01:57:15, September 12, 2012 CET | From | The Liberal Pinks | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | I will answer your comments when finished. |
| Date | 02:17:14, September 12, 2012 CET | From | The Liberal Pinks | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | I know this bill is to long for you CNC and I apologize for that but you would not vote for any of them anyway and each of these have already been beaten to death in debate by us so there is no point. EDNA i messaged you, please check it. |
| Date | 02:21:24, September 12, 2012 CET | From | The Liberal Pinks | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | "Yes the hater of the people wants to transfer power back to the elite coprations. healtchcare is a human right you fool. stock exchanges NEED to be regulated. i will not allow some people damage everyone elses lives because of them gambling on the market." We are not the hater of the people, we ARE the people and WE choose to vote in a majority capitalist government (I really hope EDNA gets on soon :P) because WE the people are tired of losing our jobs and being forced into government control. |
| Date | 02:23:06, September 12, 2012 CET | From | The Liberal Pinks | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | "remind me why we serve in the same cabinet?" You already know the answer to this. You wished for the position of head of government and I thought it was a great idea. All political parties should feel free to be apart of and run our government, it keeps our government far more stable during minority governments, which we have been under for over a century. If you wish to rewrite the cabinet please propose one but hold of on voting so we can talk it over. At the moment I think it is well placed. |
| Date | 02:39:36, September 12, 2012 CET | From | E.D.N.A. | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | I disagree with several things here, but those can be fixed later. |
| Date | 02:42:18, September 12, 2012 CET | From | The Liberal Pinks | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | EDNA when this passes make a new bill and I will vote to change what you wish back. I would have halted to vote but didn't know if you would get on soon enough. Going for destroying environmental laws shortly. |
| Date | 18:33:40, September 13, 2012 CET | From |  Partit Qawmien Soċjalista Maġatrani | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | OOC: I am looking at these bills still. My computer was infected with a virus and I just spent 36 hours making sure it was dead and gone. |
| Date | 18:48:42, September 13, 2012 CET | From | Partit Qawmien Soċjalista Maġatrani | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | Article 13 is acceptable. |
| Date | 18:49:12, September 13, 2012 CET | From | Partit Qawmien Soċjalista Maġatrani | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | Article 12 confuses me. |
| Date | 18:49:59, September 13, 2012 CET | From | Partit Qawmien Soċjalista Maġatrani | To | Debating the Wiping Out Communism 3364 |
| Message | I wish to know why this bill is so long? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 391 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 194 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 165 |
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