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Bill: Further Economic Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Covenanters (IA)
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: April 2159
Description[?]:
| A bill to facilitate further reforms to free up the market and promote economic growth. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning child labour.
Old value:: Child labour is forbidden.
Current: Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers.
Proposed: Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign investments.
Old value:: Foreign investors may invest in national companies, but may not get a majority share.
Current: Foreign investors may freely invest in national companies.
Proposed: Foreign investors may freely invest in national companies.
Article 3
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 subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Proposed: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families but does not regulate the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:50:13, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | Child labour, is there no end to this corruption. |
| Date | 12:34:59, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | We're talking about paper rounds, 16 year olds joining apprenticeship schemes or paid cadetships in the armed forces, etc, like normal civilised countries have: not rent boys, chimney sweeps and child soldiers. |
| Date | 12:46:12, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | As long as that is made clear in the legislation. |
| Date | 13:06:37, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | "Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers." If that doesn't cover it, what would you like to see? |
| Date | 13:11:41, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | Sorry, forgot about that. |
| Date | 13:34:15, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | If you get rid of three, four, and five, sure. |
| Date | 13:37:25, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | 3, 4 and 5 are fairly important. I'll only drop them if I really have to. |
| Date | 21:26:39, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Seosavists Republican party | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | 1. : ok I suppose. 2. against 3. Why get rid of an option for the government. We don't have to use it but we should keep the option. 4. Hell no, that's rewarding failure, and that's not even free market. 5. wouldn't vote yes for it but don't fully disagree with it. 6. No |
| Date | 23:01:43, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Redneck Party | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | 4 is the only one we cannot support |
| Date | 02:50:22, December 20, 2005 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | Seosavists pretty much said why I didn't want 3 or 4. That policy will really hurt our budget. I really think we don't need to subsidize the airhockey industry. We want 5 removed because (as I know from personal experience), supporting a family of four is hard enough (I come from a family of 6), and seeing how we are a rural nation, and the majority of rural nations have large families, I believe that unless we insure that families can survive then we will have alot of deaths on our hands. |
| Date | 03:47:53, December 20, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | I agree with the RzP and SRP. |
| Date | 09:45:59, December 20, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | On the face of it I don't supprt article 4 either, but read it in context and you'll I'm saving money but chucking a few sweetners at failing companies, until they're bought out by foreign investers, rather than the current policy of nationalising them! As for article five: my wife and I are both in reasonably paid professional jobs, both earning well above the minimum wage. We wouldn't dream of having a second child at the moment as we simply couldn't afford to provide for it in the way we have for our first. Yet under current Luthori legislation the minimum wage is set at a level higher than the combined salary of me and my wife. No wonder companies are going under! |
| Date | 13:43:36, December 20, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | I'm going to lose 3, 4 and 5 to get this through and will reintroduce them separately. |
| Date | 15:27:23, December 20, 2005 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Further Economic Reform |
| Message | Aye then! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 541 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 209 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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