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Bill: Space Without the Government Freedom Act.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal-Progressive Union
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: October 2172
Description[?]:
| This bill will deregulate the space program and allow private corporations to finance the space program. This will free up a substantial amount of government money that is currently being allotted to the space program. Private companies will be able to dedicate more resources and money into the space program and increase it's potential in the long run |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards space exploration.
Old value:: The government shall operate a space agency that contracts with and oversees private space-exploration companies.
Current: The government shall issue permits to private space-exploration companies.
Proposed: Space exploration and use shall be totally unregulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:25:42, January 16, 2006 CET | From |   Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Space Without the Government Freedom Act. |
| Message | Money that is going to waste funding a wacky idea that there is anything worth exploring in "space". There is nothing up there anyway. |
| Date | 12:50:25, January 16, 2006 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Space Without the Government Freedom Act. |
| Message | Except for the origins of the universe and how man came to be (oops that wasn't very biblical...). |
| Date | 15:44:43, January 16, 2006 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Space Without the Government Freedom Act. |
| Message | That's a very large area/volume you have just written off as having nothing. |
| Date | 16:22:29, January 16, 2006 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Space Without the Government Freedom Act. |
| Message | If you don't like the idea of exploration in the space. Then ban it. |
| Date | 20:03:43, January 16, 2006 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Space Without the Government Freedom Act. |
| Message | "f you don't like the idea of exploration in the space. Then ban it." Why would I ban it? That would be a pointless, I never said I hate space exploration. And when did I seriously write off the large/volume as having nothing? I believe that it is a burden to maintain a government a space program that requires huge funds when we already have private companies involved in the program. Nothing will really change as private companies will likely begin more research into space than existed when the government was in control. |
| Date | 20:24:02, January 16, 2006 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Space Without the Government Freedom Act. |
| Message | We understand the reasoning, but disagree with the practice. Whilst the government operates a space agency that oversees and works directly with private companies allows the government to have direct involvement in space to the benefit of all the citizens of this Country, not just the shareholders of corporations, but also massively reduces the cost involved in operating only a government agency. The current situation provides the "best of both worlds" where the private industries can expand their operations, but not to such an extent that they can use space as purely a marketing venture to the degredation of Hobrazian national interests. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 143 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 257 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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