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Bill: Free Telephone Lines Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: De venstregrønne
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: December 3510
Description[?]:
| Access to telephones lines should be free and considered a basic human right. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Current: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Proposed: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:09:02, June 30, 2013 CET | From | Folkeviljen (FV) | To | Debating the Free Telephone Lines Act |
| Message | We are not aware of any telephone right that concerns human beings. Could PM enlighten us about this so-called right or is it something like unicorns that are only believed by DV members and 3-years-old children? Christian H. Albinsson Leader of SD |
| Date | 01:32:45, June 30, 2013 CET | From | Fremskritt | To | Debating the Free Telephone Lines Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker While there is a right to communicate, which we provide to lower class and regulate it so it would be affordable to middle class and upper class, why does our tax money goes to unnecessary spending on upper class, whom certainly doesn't needs that, DVG steals the money of the poor to give them to rich, this is unacceptable.That money spend on upper class could be used for extra tax cuts and more welfare to poor, but instead, DVG chose to spend it on rich. We are withdrawing our symbolic support to this government, we can't support a government under these conditions, we advise Opriktigheten to withdraw their support too and vote for our call for early elections. Birgitte Klitgaard (B) Chairwoman of LD |
| Date | 20:41:02, June 30, 2013 CET | From | Logisk Synspunkt | To | Debating the Free Telephone Lines Act |
| Message | Q: If free access to telephone lines is a right, then why didn't the Romans have telephone lines? A: No one has a right to services or tangible objects. Rights are intangibles that every human being has that cannot be taken away except by immoral action and force. |
| Date | 20:41:47, June 30, 2013 CET | From | Logisk Synspunkt | To | Debating the Free Telephone Lines Act |
| Message | Plus, they didn't have the technology, and as far as I know, technology is not a right. |
| Date | 22:51:07, July 04, 2013 CET | From | De venstregrønne | To | Debating the Free Telephone Lines Act |
| Message | What can be considered as a human right changes as society progresses. Communication by telephone should not be something to make a profit out of and we believe that all citizens should have a right to it free of charge. Elin Dahle, Leader of De venstregrønne |
| Date | 19:00:22, July 05, 2013 CET | From | Logisk Synspunkt | To | Debating the Free Telephone Lines Act |
| Message | From what I understand, human rights are unalienable, meaning that all humans have them equally as a definition of being human. You can't separate human rights from humans, so all humans regardless of race, creed, time, etc., all have the same rights. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 56 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 152 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 66 |
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