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Bill: Economic Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Party of Solentia (SPS)
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: December 4010
Description[?]:
| We need these changes for our workers. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: All banks are privately owned.
Current: All banks are privately owned.
Proposed: The government operates large, national banks, but small community based private banks are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards daily working hours.
Old value:: Local governments regulates the daily working hours.
Current: The government has no policy concerning daily working hours.
Proposed: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Energy regulation.
Old value:: Energy is provided by private companies which are not subject to any special regulations.
Current: Energy is provided by private companies which are not subject to any special regulations.
Proposed: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Exchange rate regime
Old value:: The exchange rate of the national currency is allowed to float, and the government does not intervene at all.
Current: The exchange rate of the national currency is allowed to float, and the government does not intervene at all.
Proposed: The exchange rate of the national currency is fixed by the government.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:42:45, April 08, 2016 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the Economic Reform |
| Message | this is the path to communism. We have worked hard to purge communism out of this state. Vote no |
| Date | 16:20:53, April 08, 2016 CET | From | Socialist Party of Solentia (SPS) | To | Debating the Economic Reform |
| Message | First of all this is not communism. Secondly i have som questions for you. Are against a minimum wage? You say its ok to let employers have workers with a wage below the poverty line. Do you want this countries economy to rely on the companies? So this country is all about the companies benefit not the peoples happiness. If the national currency exchange rate is based on the companies actions and the government doesn't intervene. How are you supposed to have your "limited welfare" that you talked about? Because one day you can afford it the other day the companies have crashed our currency and you can't afford anything. Why is the energy supposed to be provided by a company while the state could own it so all the benefits from the energy providing could go to the welfare or we could make it free. You are saying its ok for a employer to make there workers work 10 hours or maybe more. The most democratic and fair way is that both sides negotiate. Not that one side determines everything. That would be some kind of dictatorship. I want to make the large banks publicly owned because then we can help small businesses. By loaning out money without too much interest. |
| Date | 07:26:18, April 09, 2016 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the Economic Reform |
| Message | Business create jobs and not government. Local governments can make laws but the wages and needs shall vary from conditions county to county. That's communistic to have public banks. Private investors move the economy |
| Date | 23:10:11, April 09, 2016 CET | From | Socialist Party of Solentia (SPS) | To | Debating the Economic Reform |
| Message | Government can create jobs to if they just get money and stop making excuses to not pay higher wages. |
| Date | 04:38:05, April 10, 2016 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the Economic Reform |
| Message | Yes then do you want defecits. It is artificial spending. Did you see what happens when spending is cut back, the economy will tank like FDR in the recession of 1937. The New Deal was artificial not actual job and economic growth |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 322 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 428 |
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