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Bill: Abolition of Telephone Subsidies Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Brit Yeudish
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: October 3539
Description[?]:
| Public money should not be squandered on paying everybody's telephone bills. We do have a duty to ensure citizens are not exploited through unscrupulous telephone companies exploiting a dominant position in the market, but beyond that, the government should keep out of this area. Besides anything else, too much talking on the telephone is not good for our society. It encourages time wasting and gossiping, and replaces face-to-face communication with an artificial and inferior substitute. Yissakhar Levine Leader of Brit Yeudish |
Proposals
Article 1
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 regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:10:38, September 01, 2013 CET | From | Hakla'ut VePituah | To | Debating the Abolition of Telephone Subsidies Act |
| Message | While most socialist parties like our own would never consider an alternative to free phone calls for all, my party has actually been persuaded to support this due to the harm to society free phone calls have, as outlined by Yissakhar Levine. Furthermore, we also believe the state will regulate the price of phone calls effectively enough to make them affordable for all. Yitzhak Rosenfeld, Leader of Hakla'ut VePituah |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 120 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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