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Bill: Free Markets Act 2163
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom Party
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: June 2164
Description[?]:
| In our unshakeable belief in free markets, that free markets lead to freedoms in social and political matters. That people should be allowed to choose, to be free from government tyranny. That a inteventionist government is one that feels it knows better than the people for the so called 'public good'. We propose these free market measures |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: The national government provides local governments with funding to operate libraries.
Current: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Proposed: The national government contracts with private companies to maintain a system of libraries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the post office
Old value:: There is a nationalised post office. Private post office agencies are allowed to exist, and the services provided by them are not regulated.
Current: There is a nationalised post office agency in the nation. Private ones are banned.
Proposed: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are unregulated.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Waste disposal responsibility.
Old value:: Private companies are responsible for disposing of their own waste. The government disposes of residential waste.
Current: It is the responsibility of local governments to decide on waste disposal regulation.
Proposed: Waste disposal is left entirely to the private sector and is unregulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:11:50, December 29, 2005 CET | From |  Grand Republican Party | To | Debating the Free Markets Act 2163 |
| Message | With reluctance, the GRP will support all of these articles, though it would wish for a system of publically operated libraries. However, given the GRPs temporarily toned down pwoer, we shall support. |
| Date | 01:25:49, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Free Markets Act 2163 |
| Message | Against all articles |
| Date | 14:08:32, December 31, 2005 CET | From | Radical Freedom Party | To | Debating the Free Markets Act 2163 |
| Message | We strongly oppose an abolitition of the minimum wage. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 276 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 323 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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