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Bill: Competition in Defence Act, 2157
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Imperialist 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 2158
Description[?]:
| The armed forces of Rutania deserve the best weapons and equipment that the government can afford them. We should stop treating national defence industries as symbols of national pride and sources of jobs, and start treating them as proper businesses that need to meet the most rigorous of standards for us to entrust the lives of Rutanian servicemen to their hands. Therefore, they should be completely private and operate like any other business. |
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 national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:34:01, December 18, 2005 CET | From | Grand Republican Party | To | Debating the Competition in Defence Act, 2157 |
| Message | The GRP will support this measure. We havev come round to believeing that subsidisation in the defence industry usually only creates laxadaisicalness and bad weaponry. Competition will be good for the defence industry andf can only benefit the military. The creation of somekind of oversight commitee staffed by military and governmental experts to ensure excellence would also be supported by the GRP. |
| Date | 20:48:51, December 18, 2005 CET | From |  Freedom Party | To | Debating the Competition in Defence Act, 2157 |
| Message | We also support this and feel that our potential coalition partners, the RFP and LAP will also support, this will be excellent for the Freedom Coalition and for Rutania. The arguments put forth by both the GRP and LIP make sense and are logical, we support this bill. |
| Date | 00:30:47, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Radical Freedom Party | To | Debating the Competition in Defence Act, 2157 |
| Message | We would have proposed this bill ourselves, as it was part of our military reforms. Even if the LIP has snatched this proposal away from under our feet we will not withold our support. |
| Date | 11:05:51, December 19, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Competition in Defence Act, 2157 |
| Message | Tell me, who would purchase military-grade weaponry, missiles, etc... other than the State? In between orders the companies which make it would have nearly no income, hence we should subsidise those industries lest they go bankrupt. |
| Date | 15:42:16, December 20, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Competition in Defence Act, 2157 |
| Message | "Tell me, who would purchase military-grade weaponry, missiles, etc... other than the State? In between orders the companies which make it would have nearly no income, hence we should subsidise those industries lest they go bankrupt." Why does it matter? State custom is more than enough to keep the compan(y/ies) in business, as has been demonstrated by BAe Systems, Lockheed Martin, Thales... all veyr successful private defence companies. Traditionally, private companies also sell to other states, making even more money. Your allegation that unsubsidised defence industry cannot survive flies in the face of all observed evidence. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 354 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 200 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 45 |
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