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Bill: Free Market Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom Party
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: July 2153
Description[?]:
| The role of government is to protect its citizens from agression, not to intervene in the market. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Current: The state owns all defence industries.
Proposed: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Current: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:22:25, December 09, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Free Market Act |
| Message | The ICP is torn on this bill. We will wait to see how the other parties think of it. |
| Date | 02:23:25, December 09, 2005 CET | From | Social Reform Party | To | Debating the Free Market Act |
| Message | No. |
| Date | 02:26:30, December 09, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Free Market Act |
| Message | Fine then. The ICP, which agrees with moderation, will vote to keep the moderate options over the extremist options... |
| Date | 17:10:58, December 09, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Free Market Act |
| Message | Meh... |
| Date | 11:57:15, December 10, 2005 CET | From |  Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Free Market Act |
| Message | Centrist by name, procrastination by nature... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 404 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 196 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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