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Bill: Infrastructure Act 3480
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Party of Ikradon
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 3480
Description[?]:
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Eminent Domain.
Old value:: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Current: The government may seize private property for any reason.
Proposed: The government may not seize private property.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on energy generation.
Old value:: Small scale private electrical generation is permitted but most energy is generated by a government-owned company.
Current: All power stations are publicly owned.
Proposed: Private power stations provide energy for the entire power grid.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Current: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Proposed: Health care is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for all citizens.
Article 4
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 in the nation. Private ones are banned.
Proposed: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are unregulated.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Current: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for everyone
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Public works initiatives
Old value:: The government funds a program to build public works.
Current: The government funds a program to build public works.
Proposed: The government contracts with private corporations to build public works.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Current: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Proposed: All housing is private but rent is subsidised for low-income households.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: The State owns and operates a national TOC, alongside private TOCs.
Current: The State owns and operates a national TOC, alongside private TOCs.
Proposed: Private companies operate TOCs throughout the country.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:30:47, May 04, 2013 CET | From |  Green-Left Communalist Collective | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | Articles 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 are hypercapitalist proposals that will induce chaos into what should otherwise be well run state/private co-op societal operations. Unregulated postal services?! Why is that even an option. Methinks your party t |
| Date | 12:31:17, May 04, 2013 CET | From | Green-Left Communalist Collective | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | ...akes 'state' regulation and sponsorship for granted. |
| Date | 12:48:29, May 04, 2013 CET | From | Conservative Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | Why should postal services be regulated when they'll be offering just that: postal services. Private postal services are a lot more efficient. Some of these proposals are things we've suggested before, so I don't need to repeat myself yet again to explain my reasoning behind them. However, these are proposals to make things more efficient and cheaper to run so we can make massive income tax cuts. |
| Date | 14:25:10, May 04, 2013 CET | From | Phillipsian Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | We would support Article 1, and that's it. We will propose a separate bill if this one doesn't pass. -Joe Phillips, Former Head of the Presidium and Leader of the Phillipsian Party |
| Date | 23:58:55, May 04, 2013 CET | From | SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL) | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | "Private postal services are a lot more efficient." Again, you are simply assuming that private means "more efficient". |
| Date | 00:02:42, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Conservative Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | OOC: Private postal services are much more efficient and cheaper. Look at Royal Mail as a good example of how bad nationalised postal companies are. |
| Date | 01:10:11, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Communist Party (DCP) (LL) | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | Wow, this proposal is atrocious, it will bankrupt Ikradon both financially and morally. It will literally lead to the death of our citizens, as well as cause massive instability. |
| Date | 02:29:50, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Conservative Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | 'It will literally lead to the death of our citizens' - hitting new lows. |
| Date | 04:40:13, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Communist Party (DCP) (LL) | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | It is rather had to argue that not supplying citizens with health care will literally kill them. A subsidy is hardly enough. Furthermore, postal work is very stressful, and, when in the past postal services have been privatized, a rush of suicides and workplace shootings have followed. Efficiency isn't always the best aim. (I site for both my argument the real life examples of the US post office following it's privatization, and the state of American health care) |
| Date | 12:43:09, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Conservative Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | 'that not supplying citizens with health care will literally kill them' - they'll get exactly the same, free healthcare, it'll just be operated by the private sector. |
| Date | 17:46:50, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Communist Party (DCP) (LL) | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | Subsidized does not mean 100 percent covered, and if it were, it would inevitably be more expensive or lower quality. |
| Date | 18:55:52, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Conservative Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Infrastructure Act 3480 |
| Message | OOC: Well, in the other countries I played in their players assumed it meant 100% covered especially considering the alternative options. I intend it to be 100% covered anyway as much as you say otherwise. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 198 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 469 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 63 |
| Random fact: Particracy is set in the fictional world of Terra, which mirrors the real world of today and yet is not quite like it. |
| Random quote: "The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire" - Voltaire |