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Bill: Free Market Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Reform Movement
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 3598
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The state owns the commanding heights of the economy and all major industries, but private ownership is allowed in the minor industries.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
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 | 19:34:41, December 27, 2013 CET | From |  Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Free Market Reform |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Our Nationalist religion is what holds us together. -- John Fertig, Chairman of the NRG, Environment/Tourism Minister |
| Date | 19:35:21, December 27, 2013 CET | From | People's Reform Movement | To | Debating the Free Market Reform |
| Message | OOC: Sorry I changed this to an economic bill. |
| Date | 19:35:26, December 27, 2013 CET | From | Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Free Market Reform |
| Message | OOC: You changed what the bill was about -.- Not cool... |
| Date | 19:38:50, December 27, 2013 CET | From | People's Reform Movement | To | Debating the Free Market Reform |
| Message | OOC: LOL. My bad... :/ It stays as is now. :) |
| Date | 19:40:12, December 27, 2013 CET | From | People's Reform Movement | To | Debating the Free Market Reform |
| Message | The government does not need to be so active in the national economy. It can run itself but the government may still intervene if necessary to save a business deemed critical to society from bankruptcy. |
| Date | 19:52:13, December 27, 2013 CET | From | Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Free Market Reform |
| Message | OOC: So set your bills to vote. |
| Date | 20:13:09, December 27, 2013 CET | From | Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Free Market Reform |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Why should we nationalise an industry only after it becomes inefficient and fails? That is like subsidising inefficiency. Someone can start a big company, run it into bankruptcy, then know that they're getting bailed out by taxpayers and that the failing company will become the government's burden. Let the government continue to run the commanding heights of the economy. We don't control too much. Some believe we control to little: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=396733 Read the statements that were made on that bill. Lodamun's economy is like a rail system. The government owns the railways, but the private sector owns the trains. -- Paul Fertig, Former Chairman of the NRG, Former President of Lodamun, Trade/Industry Minister |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 143 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 289 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 44 |
| Random fact: In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass. |
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