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Bill: Protect Our Families
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Reform Party
Status[?]: passed
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 2170
Description[?]:
| It is time that we helped our families, instead of leaving them at the mercy (or lack thereof) of the private sector. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own.
Current: The state offers a voluntary public pension, combined with other voluntary private pensions.
Proposed: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: There are no regulations on phone service.
Current: Telephone lines are provided free of charge to all citizens.
Proposed: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Current: All housing is privately-owned.
Proposed: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:09:36, January 12, 2006 CET |
From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Protect Our Families | | Message | And this won't just make more people poor and cause inflation and thus damage our economy and make our money useless and harm anyone with savings? Uh, we're voting no. |
| Date | 16:34:23, January 12, 2006 CET |
From | Democratic Liberal Party | To | Debating the Protect Our Families | | Message | We wholeheartedly support these poverty-curbing measures. The government has, as the elected governor of the people, a responsibility to protect their wellbeing.
We will vote for. |
| Date | 18:49:34, January 12, 2006 CET |
From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Protect Our Families | | Message | AGSP, MP: of course. Thus the name change. We were centrist but because the population is mostly capitalist and the party majorities are socialist, the ICP changed to appeal to the underrepresented majority. |
| Date | 20:38:33, January 12, 2006 CET |
From | Hammerian Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Protect Our Families | | Message | We cannot treat people like children. If we want to SUPPORT them, we must respect their independance and economic freedom. If we want to PROTECT them, we must make economically healthy decisions to ensure the wellbeing of the Alorian economy. Against. |
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| Vote |
Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 274 |
| no | Total Seats: 263 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 63 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - Edward Dowling |
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