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Bill: Business Opportunity Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Front
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: July 3680
Description[?]:
| A BILL to allow businesses to have greater opportunities and fiscal freedom in our nation's economy. This bill will reform certain economic policies regarding the relationship between the government and the private sector. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: Defence industries are privately owned but subsidised by the state.
Current: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Proposed: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 8
Current: 10
Proposed: 5
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Current: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Proposed: Trade unions are illegal.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 10
Current: 40
Proposed: 8
Article 5
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 that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Policy on monopolies (this general law is superceded by other laws relating to specific parts of the economy).
Old value:: Monopolies are only forbidden in specific sectors of the economy.
Current: Monopolies are forbidden, and are actively broken up.
Proposed: Monopolies are forbidden, and are actively broken up.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Only closely related trade unions can walk out on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Current: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Proposed: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:54:10, June 11, 2014 CET | From | Nobility Party | To | Debating the Business Opportunity Act |
| Message | Repealing the minimum wage, why? |
| Date | 23:45:51, June 11, 2014 CET | From | National Front | To | Debating the Business Opportunity Act |
| Message | A recent poll taken about the minimum wage found that 45.02% of our citizens favor no provision of a minimum wage. http://classic.particracy.net/viewnews.php?newsid=424435&nation=13 Minimum wages are bound by inflation. As inflation rates fluctuate, minimum wages may increase. If so, costs of all goods increase as well. This leads to more inflation. Having no minimum wage allows companies to compete with other companies for labor. This helps to best balance the pay of the workers and the cost of the good or service. Also, disbanding monopolies increases competition in the private sector. Gregory Hatch, National Front Finance Advisor |
| Date | 14:07:58, June 12, 2014 CET | From | Loyalistische Partei | To | Debating the Business Opportunity Act |
| Message | The Coalition does not support the proposal on monopolies, as we believe free market should be allowed to eliminate the monopolies on its own, but otherwise this is a great act and it has our full support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 146 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 147 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 8 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life brand names (eg. Coca Cola, McDonalds, Microsoft). However, in the case of military equipment brand names it is permitted to use simple number-letter combinations (eg. T-90 and F-22) borrowed from real life, and also simple generic names, like those of animals (eg. Leopard and Jaguar). |
| Random quote: "I never dared to be radical when young. For fear it would make me conservative when old." - Robert Frost |