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Bill: 3808 Government Powers Restriction Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Democratic 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: March 3809
Description[?]:
| "This bill attempts to take power from the government, and we wanna give it to the people. Who determines what is false? The people should. If they find it false, they shouldn't watch. And why should the government tell businesses who will run them? The people of Solentia are offended that these laws exist, and we are making this better for them by removing our own power." ~Ron Rand, Head Chairman of the LCC |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government requires most industries to be fully run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: Democratic Workers' Councils are not permitted to run a business.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Current: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Proposed: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:10:31, February 28, 2015 CET | From |  Communist Party of Solentia (CPS) | To | Debating the 3808 Government Powers Restriction Bill |
| Message | The Democratic Workers' Councils law requires businesses to be run democratically by people, not by a bunch of money-grabbers. You are again restricting freedoms of the most people, while giving some people freedom of exploiting others. Victoria Owens, Vice-Chairperson of SDP |
| Date | 20:57:04, February 28, 2015 CET | From | Radical Republican Party (RRP) | To | Debating the 3808 Government Powers Restriction Bill |
| Message | You speak of freedom and "power to the people" at the same time you propose a bill that will take power away from the people. DWC's os the most democratic form of running a company. This is actually starting to become quite ridiculous, right-wing libertarians view of freedom is perverted. These kind of bills would only destroy what the Solentian people have built. It's a good thing that these kind of ideas don't get enough support. The law on DWC's is the legislation that's closest to RCS' s heart. Glen Charity RCS chairman |
| Date | 21:27:25, February 28, 2015 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the 3808 Government Powers Restriction Bill |
| Message | "Glen Charity says a government that forces buisnesses of something is democratic? It isn't. We like the DWC, but we aren't going to impose them on companies. People need the ability to make small buisnesses and succeed and fail by their own decisions. If they want the DWC, they can have them." ~Ron Rand, Head Chairman of the LCC |
| Date | 22:35:30, February 28, 2015 CET | From | Radical Republican Party (RRP) | To | Debating the 3808 Government Powers Restriction Bill |
| Message | So you're saying "normal" corporations structures are democratic? Glen Charity RCS chairman |
| Date | 04:59:31, March 01, 2015 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the 3808 Government Powers Restriction Bill |
| Message | "No, I'm saying freedom is democratic. We would like you to know that we aren't a corporatist party. We would raise the corporation tax to flatten the income tax. We are a party for the people. Small businesses are probably the best way to achieve that." ~Ron Rand, Head Chairman of the LCC |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 122 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 237 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 66 |
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