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Bill: Endowment Negation Decree (E.N.D.)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Whig Party
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 4187
Description[?]:
| We recommend the Peoples Assembly affirm the principles of capitalism and end the endowments distorting the free market in Rutaina, it is time to remove these subsidies. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on subsidising contraception.
Old value:: The government offers free contraceptives in pharmacies and public toilets.
Current: The government offers free contraceptives in pharmacies and public toilets.
Proposed: The government does not supply free or discounted contraceptives.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Current: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Proposed: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Article 3
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 | 18:49:45, March 26, 2017 CET | From |  Whig Party | To | Debating the Endowment Negation Decree (E.N.D.) |
| Message | Open to debate and some revision |
| Date | 18:57:56, March 26, 2017 CET | From | Civic Republican League of Rutania | To | Debating the Endowment Negation Decree (E.N.D.) |
| Message | "These policies will lead to the deaths of thousands, potentially millions of Rutanians. This is what happens when a party cares more about markets than people. I would ask if the Whigs are comfortable with that much blood on their hands, but I think we all know the answer." --CRL Health and Human Services Spokeswoman Maureen Blake |
| Date | 19:01:54, March 26, 2017 CET | From | Whig Party | To | Debating the Endowment Negation Decree (E.N.D.) |
| Message | "The policies laid out in this bill would allow for true competition in new areas of the market, when the government intervenes companies know that they can take the government for a ride so they raise their prices, causing more people to need government assistance, these companies operate on profits, the more customers they have the more profits they have. So naturally the market will adjust itself so the maximum amount of customers can be supplied by the companies. It is a win-win for the people and the companies, I urge the People's Assembly to not give in to the fear mongering of the CRL" -Whig Chairman and Assemblyman Elmer Clark |
| Date | 20:02:15, March 26, 2017 CET | From | Civic Republican League of Rutania | To | Debating the Endowment Negation Decree (E.N.D.) |
| Message | "Medicine isn't a product or commodity; it is an essential human necessity. Moreover, I fail to see how worthwhile government investments in research and development of pharmaceuticals decreases either innovation or competition. The Whigs can't seem to grasp anything beyond high school-level understanding of economics." --CRL Chief Economics Spokesman St. John Appleby |
| Date | 20:05:38, March 26, 2017 CET | From | Whig Party | To | Debating the Endowment Negation Decree (E.N.D.) |
| Message | " Researching medicine isn't a valid function of government, maybe for big government advocates it is, we would like to see the size and scope of government reduced to necessary functions, innovation doesn't come from government it comes from individuals and the free market." -Assemblywoman Lee Ann Coston |
| Date | 20:16:18, March 26, 2017 CET | From | Civic Republican League of Rutania | To | Debating the Endowment Negation Decree (E.N.D.) |
| Message | "The only 'innovation' that emerges from an unregulated market is finding innovative ways to exploit and manipulate, to drive prices up and keep wages down, to make people less healthy, less secure, and less free. We wish the that Whigs would stop pretending to be anything but the stooges for the wealthy they so obviously are." --St. John Appleby |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 92 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 92 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 66 |
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