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Bill: F-41: DARPPO Establishment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Heritage Party of Hutori
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: August 4135
Description[?]:
| Article 1) Upon this bill's passage the Defense Advanced Research Project & Production Organization or DARPPO will be created. Article 2) DARPPO will oversee all defense production and research to ensure that all government funds are being used correctly and in an efficient manner. Article 3) All technologies developed under DARPPO will only be eligible to be sold to Hutorian government and her close allies. Article 4) Research grants will be administered by DARPPO and be provided to research professors and graduates who meet DARPPO criteria. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns all defence industries.
Current: Defence industries are privately owned but subsidised by the state.
Proposed: Defence industries are privately owned but subsidised by the state.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:38:10, December 12, 2016 CET | From | Federal Heritage Party of Hutori | To | Debating the F-41: DARPPO Establishment Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I hereby open up this proposal for debate. Senator Michael Partridge (F-AD) Federalist Senate Leader |
| Date | 06:35:02, December 13, 2016 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the F-41: DARPPO Establishment Act |
| Message | ''Mr. Speaker I don't understand what the FP intend to achieve with that bill. Our defence industry work properly. Why should we create a private industry and give it the ownership over the weapon production? The state actually make a great profit from the defence industries. If we give the defence industries to a private compagnie, who would get all this profit?'' -Hillary Brown Senator of the National Progress Party and former Defence minister |
| Date | 17:49:27, December 13, 2016 CET | From | Federal Heritage Party of Hutori | To | Debating the F-41: DARPPO Establishment Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Contrary to the NPP's belief we currently make nothing and the that is for two reasons. The first is that we do not hold the rights to our greatest technologies patents to our best fighter are jointly held by JetStream Aerospace and the Horizon Technology Corporation. Therefore we could either revoke their patents or we are forced to manufacture substandard craft. Since there was no specification in the defense nationalization bill we have been force to do the latter. Secondly, we are both the manufacturer and the consumer of these goods so at the very best it is a wash and in reality were are still paying for these products. And while yes this bill would mean that defense industries would get profit. This bill also proposes that grants for high level research is to be given to our nation's universities. This will help further education and technological innovation which will not just benefit the defense industries but, in actuality all industries. Both of which are lacking under the current system, to be a leader in the world we must also be at the forefront of technological progress and this is the most efficient way of doing it. Not to mention that these industries will provide more employment than their nationalized counterparts. General Yvonne Owens Minster of Defense |
| Date | 01:29:43, December 14, 2016 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the F-41: DARPPO Establishment Act |
| Message | ''Madam Speaker I would first like to remind to General Owens that we are selling weapon to foreign country. This is the profit that I was talking about. So I will reformulate my question: Who would get all the profit from the selling of arms to foreign countries? Secondly, Madam Owens has bring up a point about patent. She said that or we have to revoke technologie patents or we have to manufacture substandard craft. Why can't we just buy the patenst? I mean, if we keep the current legislation, these industries won't have any other choice then to sell their patent if they want to make some profit.'' -Hillary Brown Senator of the National Progress Party and former Defence minister |
| Date | 02:34:42, December 14, 2016 CET | From | Federal Heritage Party of Hutori | To | Debating the F-41: DARPPO Establishment Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, What the former defense minister says is incorrect. We currently have no contracts with foreign country as to the purchase of our weapons. So the answer would be no one I guess, as to who would get the income under the provisions of this bill it would of course be the private defense firms. We made no attempt to hide that. Actually companies such as Horizon Technologies and Carmichael Industries have taken their production facilities elsewhere. So our choices are to continue to buy our HF-35s from them while losing Hutorian jobs, make due with substandard craft, revoke the patents or re-privatize the industry and regain those Hutorian jobs. General Yvonne Owens Minster of Defense |
| Date | 17:46:40, December 14, 2016 CET | From | Zardio Konfedera Partio | To | Debating the F-41: DARPPO Establishment Act |
| Message | Honourable Members of the Senate General Owens is correct. While Horizon Technology Corporation is a Hutorian Corporation, our Defence production facilities are in fact located in foreign nations. Zardugal, Lodamun, Kalistan and other nations produce the HF-35 for us and we sell the finished product directly to Hutori when purchases come in. We are not in contravention of Hutorian LAW either as HTC sells it self as primarily an Aerospace Development and Research Firm Further we have no desire to sell the patents to the Hutorian Government nor do we believe our partners at Carmichael Industries wish to sell their half of the patents. We hope this helped clarify any issues. Todd Ingram Executive Vice President of Operations Horizon Technology Corporation |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 106 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 293 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 201 |
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