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Bill: Directive 10-289

Details

Submitted by[?]: Tuesday Is Coming

Status[?]: defeated

Votes: This bill proposes the withdrawal from a treaty. It will require half of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.

Voting deadline: December 2161

Description[?]:

In the name of the general welfare to protect the people's security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed that-

Point One: All workers, wage earners, and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such board to be appointed by the Bureau Of Economic Planning and National Resources. All person reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.

Point Two: All industrial, commercial, manufacturing, and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit, nor leave, nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any or all their property.

Point Three: All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes, and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights. The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of elimination monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation. No trademarks, brand names, or copyrighted titles shall be used. Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board. All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.

Point Four: No new devices, inventions, products, or goods of any nature whatsoever, not now on the market, shall be produced, invented, manufactured or sold after the date of this directive, The Office of patents and Copyrights is hereby suspended. All "research departments, experimental laboratories, scientific foundations" will be closed except for government-operated facilities.

Point Five: Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as is, they or he produced during the Basic Year, no more or no less. The year is to known as the Basic or Yardstick Year is to be the year ending on the date of this directive. Over or under production shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification board.

Point Six: Every person of any age, sex, class or income, shall henceforth spend the same amount of money on the purchase of goods per year as he or she spent during the Basic Year, no more and no less. Over or under purchasing shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.

Point Seven: All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive. Taxes will be allowed to increase as needed for the public good.

Point Eight: All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the Unification Board, whose decisions shall be final.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date08:22:12, December 24, 2005 CET
From Tuesday Is Coming
ToDebating the Directive 10-289
MessageOfficially, this will be released in Jan 2161. I apologize for the expected delays.

Date08:31:17, December 24, 2005 CET
FromSlaytanic Wehrmacht
ToDebating the Directive 10-289
MessageI will support the withdrawal, and #2. not the strikes, though.

Date17:32:39, December 24, 2005 CET
FromCNT/AFL
ToDebating the Directive 10-289
MessageYes to 1, 4 and 5.

Date01:02:13, December 25, 2005 CET
FromInternational Society of Bankers
ToDebating the Directive 10-289
MessageBah, no to all.

Date04:08:35, December 25, 2005 CET
FromCNT/AFL
ToDebating the Directive 10-289
MessageCorrection:

We support the treaty withdrawal, limited copy protection and fishing quotas.

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
 

Total Seats: 27

no
      

Total Seats: 69

abstain
 

Total Seats: 4


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