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Bill: Libraries Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperial Alliance
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: January 4049
Description[?]:
| Local councils should run local library services for the local people they represent. Services like this should not be being run by massive central government departments. Cosmo Adams Chairman of the Imperial Alliance |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: The national government controls a vast and comprehensive system of public libraries.
Current: The national government provides local governments with funding to operate libraries.
Proposed: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:26:22, June 23, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Libraries Act |
| Message | Quite true. And keep in mind, we are minarchists, which means that: like anarcho-capitalists and libertarian socialists, minarchists believe that most functions currently served by the government should be served by smaller, non-government groups--but they believe that a government is still needed to serve a few collective needs, such as military defense. |
| Date | 16:50:56, June 23, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Libraries Act |
| Message | And libraries are not major issues like defence, health care or social services, so Yes to this |
| Date | 13:53:18, June 24, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Libraries Act |
| Message | No no. After some deliberation, we have decided to reverse our vote |
| Date | 15:25:52, June 24, 2016 CET | From | Imperial Alliance | To | Debating the Libraries Act |
| Message | The political establishment is demonstrating it doesn't trust local people to run their own local services. What is the point of having a local council if it is banned from even running a library? We are suffering under the yoke of an overbearing, centralising federal government. Cosmo Adams Chairman of the Imperial Alliance |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 108 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 642 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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