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Bill: Economic Democracy Now!
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dranish Union of Metzists
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: August 3576
Description[?]:
| The workers are tired of being held thrall to private sector scavengers, speculator and such other bourgeois filth. It is time to take over the economy in the interest of equality and popular democracy. Comrade Antonio Blero DUM General Secretary |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Current: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Proposed: The government operates and owns all banks.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: The government requires all businesses to be run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:48:25, November 13, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Economic Democracy Now! |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This legislation would end what little freedom there is left in Dranland. There is little difference, it seems, between the statist Metzists and the statist military junta. Bron Woodhall GNP spokesperson |
| Date | 02:26:19, November 14, 2013 CET | From | Phillipsian Party of Dranland | To | Debating the Economic Democracy Now! |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The State should not be the end all be all to everything. It should be a player, but never the game. Arnold Katz MP Leader of the Phillipsian Party |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 255 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Real-life places should not be referenced in Particracy. |
| Random quote: "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." - Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan |