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Bill: Economic Liberalisation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hzía Nrzi Prta
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: August 3585
Description[?]:
| The Jelbanian economy has become hidebound by excessive statism. We need to allow more room for private entrepreneurship. Lionel Langlois Chairman of the HNP |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 50
Current: 0
Proposed: 40
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns all defence industries.
Current: Defence industries are privately owned but subsidised by the state.
Proposed: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Current: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Proposed: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state operates a compulsory, public pension system.
Current: There is a compulsory private pension system.
Proposed: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government requires most industries to be fully run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: Democratic Workers' Councils are not permitted to run a business.
Proposed: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:23:57, December 02, 2013 CET | From |  Knstatak Grundnyr Prta | To | Debating the Economic Liberalisation Act |
| Message | Private entrepreneurship paves the way for the economic domination of Jelbania by a rich minority. Only through equality and democracy can we become a truly modern nation. Kezkai Abdlrahmsrmko Jezhrjebrnfi, Minister of Finance |
| Date | 03:17:35, December 02, 2013 CET | From | Hzía Nrzi Prta | To | Debating the Economic Liberalisation Act |
| Message | We will not take lessons about modernity from a Finance Minister who is bankrupting our country. Nor will we take lessons about equality from a government which imposes blatant ethnic discrimination. Nor lessons about democracy from the lackey of a dictator. Lionel Langlois Chairman of the HNP |
| Date | 14:09:37, December 02, 2013 CET | From | Knstatak Grundnyr Prta | To | Debating the Economic Liberalisation Act |
| Message | We will not take lessons in democracy from Deltarian-sponsored fascists. Jelbania is a democracy, not like the unelected dictatorship of the Sebastians. Kezkai Abdlrahmsrmko Jezhrjebrnfi, Minister of Finance |
| Date | 00:35:57, December 03, 2013 CET | From | Hzía Nrzi Prta | To | Debating the Economic Liberalisation Act |
| Message | The HNP is a party of the Jelbanians - both Jelbanien and Jelbek. We are not "Deltarian-sponsored fascists", and unlike the KGP, we represent all Jelbanians - not just one ethnic community. Lionel Langlois Chairman of the HNP |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 40 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 35 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!" - Winston Churchill |