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Bill: Protect the Economy Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Reform 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: February 2164
Description[?]:
| We must ensure that workers are not put into unemployment by our dangerous, unregulated market. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Current: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Proposed: The government subsidizes private enterprises that face bankruptcy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:09:00, December 30, 2005 CET | From |  Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Protect the Economy Act |
| Message | We don't see how this helps the economy... |
| Date | 03:29:45, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Social Reform Party | To | Debating the Protect the Economy Act |
| Message | Well, as businesses are bound to fail due to an unregulated market, this will lead to significantly higher unemployment. Which is bad for the economy, is it not? So, to help prevent businesses from failing and causing a rise in unemployment the government will subsidize private enterprises that face bankruptcy. |
| Date | 03:49:42, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Protect the Economy Act |
| Message | It is also a horrible waste of government money. I believe we are over 90 billion Aloriks into a deficit. |
| Date | 03:53:18, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Protect the Economy Act |
| Message | 789,861,747 ALO into a deficit, to be precise. I appologize for overestimating. It's still a large number though. |
| Date | 12:31:28, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Hammerian Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Protect the Economy Act |
| Message | Excuse us, but were there not parties claiming, just months (days) ago, that we have a surplus, which gave good reasoning for tax cuts? |
| Date | 19:20:57, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Protect the Economy Act |
| Message | Indeed, there were, the ICP amongst them. |
| Date | 19:47:28, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Protect the Economy Act |
| Message | Yes, but the deficit did increase. HCP, as Minister of Finance you should adjust budget and income taxes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 108 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 492 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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