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Bill: Technology Policy
Details
Submitted by[?]: League of Objectivists!
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: February 2178
Description[?]:
| Let us give technology companies more slack to help our nation catch up to the rest of the world in the areas of health and safety. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns all defence industries.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Article 2
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 | 01:02:59, January 29, 2006 CET | From |  II / Newsnight Faction | To | Debating the Technology Policy |
| Message | We would likely support this. However it is a drastic change from every other part of the economy! No interest in the middle road, eh? |
| Date | 01:46:53, January 29, 2006 CET | From | League of Objectivists! | To | Debating the Technology Policy |
| Message | Sorry. The LOOs are a principled party, meaning we're not about to climb halfway up a slippery slope if we don't have to. |
| Date | 20:06:56, January 29, 2006 CET | From | New Endralon Workers' Party | To | Debating the Technology Policy |
| Message | I'm agreeing with NFC a little too much lately. Could almost drive a man to capitalism. |
| Date | 01:34:38, January 30, 2006 CET | From | League of Objectivists! | To | Debating the Technology Policy |
| Message | Sounds about right. Socialists and Fascists are merely different sides of the same totalitarian coin. |
| Date | 03:53:05, January 30, 2006 CET | From | New Endralon Workers' Party | To | Debating the Technology Policy |
| Message | Socialists and fascists are direct opposites in social, politically and economic theory. You continue to make the pre-school mistake that Stalinism is Marxism. |
| Date | 06:32:03, January 30, 2006 CET | From | League of Objectivists! | To | Debating the Technology Policy |
| Message | Marxism was basically a class analysis based on the erroneous notion of zero-sum competition. Marx believed the workers would be alienated and exploited to the point that they revolted on their own. Looking at the voting record of the New Endralon Worker's Party, you are certainly not marxists. (You are not letting capitalism exploit the proletariat to revolution). Stalin agreed with Lenin and Mao about setting up a ruling class to enforce socialism, i.e. Communism, which is the predominant use of the term 'socialism' today. Socialists force people to sacrifice to the society, fascists force people to sacrifice to the nation or ruler. It's all human sacrifice, regardless who the beneficiary is. To the free men of the mind that is one evil coin. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 123 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 197 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 179 |
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