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Bill: Industrial Subsidies
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sunbeam Squad
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 3534
Description[?]:
| When a vital industry fails, its workers should not be left unemployed. All nationalized industries will have a maximum salary cap: the highest-paid employee can only earn twelve times as much as the lowest-paid employee. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Current: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Proposed: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:42:24, August 21, 2013 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Industrial Subsidies |
| Message | Madame PM Granger, We STRONGLY support this bill as it is COMMON-SENSE. It is NOT "socialism" b/c the Government will step in own a CONTROLLING interest of the company (like 51%) with the other shares PRIVATELY owned. In the end, though, the government can just SELL off its shares at a PROFIT to the taxpayers. ---The CAPITALIST Working Families Party Spokesman OOC: SS, that was a SLICK move (LMAO) by putting the "maximum salary cap" in the INTRO, but the game ALLOWS an actual bill proposal to set a maximum salary cap; so, even IF this bill passes, there is NO OFFICIAL "maximum salary cap" ;) |
| Date | 15:21:01, August 21, 2013 CET | From | Urban Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Industrial Subsidies |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We plan on repealing this law. There is nothing "capitalist" about having the government run a company. We suggest the CWF read up on Capitalism before they go spouting off at the gums about it. Marta Wilson UPR Congressional Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 317 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 170 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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