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Bill: Allow New Drugs to Be Created
Details
Submitted by[?]: Secular Capitalist 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: April 2173
Description[?]:
| What would be a company's motive if they couldn't make a profit on their product? What money could they reinvest? Does the creator of a new drug not have the RIGHT to profit from fruit of his mind? Why is it you guy's don't consider it moral for a man to keep the money he has earned by right, but it is okay for the government to steal one's profit and redistribute it to people who have NO RIGHT to it? |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government neither subsidizes research and development of drugs nor regulates their prices.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:45:34, January 17, 2006 CET | From | LiberalDemocraticFreedomTaxAndSpendParty | To | Debating the Allow New Drugs to Be Created |
| Message | Here's how this works: We (as in the government) subsidize research into areas where pharmaceutical companies would not research because they would not be profitable, and in return we regulate a fair price for the consumer. However, this does not mean we are not letting them have a profit, in fact the prices are specifically regulated to ensure they do just that. |
| Date | 23:19:21, January 17, 2006 CET | From | Moderate Beluzians | To | Debating the Allow New Drugs to Be Created |
| Message | We must ensure that people can access the prescription drugs they need. If that means relagating the prices, so be it. |
| Date | 06:01:32, January 18, 2006 CET | From | Secular Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Allow New Drugs to Be Created |
| Message | What if you owned that company? Would you want to see your profits sacrificed for the sake of people you don't know and don't care about? Would you consider that moral? By what RIGHT does a government create such a law? |
| Date | 06:42:12, January 18, 2006 CET | From | Moderate Beluzians | To | Debating the Allow New Drugs to Be Created |
| Message | Actually, I consider it moral to help other people. And I know how much money pharmacutical companies make (billions each year), I don't think I would be struggling. |
| Date | 07:09:17, January 19, 2006 CET | From | Secular Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Allow New Drugs to Be Created |
| Message | Do you consider it moral to be FORCED to "help" other people? How does the amount of money that company X makes on whatever product or service it offer give you the right to FORCE them to go give their money to something they may or may not care about or value? |
| Date | 06:59:54, January 20, 2006 CET | From | Moderate Beluzians | To | Debating the Allow New Drugs to Be Created |
| Message | If people can't be taught any other way, then yes. Morality needs to be learned. If people don't want to help anyone, then they should utterly remove themselves for society. They shouldn't partake of state education, the road system, hospitals, or anything else provided. They should be 100% self suffiecent. If they're not, they are hypocrits. |
| Date | 12:26:54, January 20, 2006 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Allow New Drugs to Be Created |
| Message | Unhelpful individuals must be shot. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 49 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 40 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 11 |
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