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Bill: Competition in Public Services Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Radical Democratic Party
Status[?]: passed
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 2187
Description[?]:
| We have proven that the private sector can successfully provide better public services at lower cost. We intend to extend this provision to the last remnants of statism in Indrala. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the organization of police/law enforcement
Old value:: There is a national police department funded by the national government and there are local police departments, funded by local governments.
Current: There is a national police department funded by the national government and there are local police departments, funded by local governments.
Proposed: The government competitively subcontracts security management to private security firms.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the post office
Old value:: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are regulated.
Current: There is a nationalised post office agency. Private post offices are allowed to exist but the services provided by them are regulated.
Proposed: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are unregulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:00:26, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Inrala Panjoregu Kiokutou (DPP) | To | Debating the Competition in Public Services Act |
| Message | Opposed. |
| Date | 22:09:32, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Party of Indrala | To | Debating the Competition in Public Services Act |
| Message | Support |
| Date | 22:26:05, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Populist Islamic Workers' League | To | Debating the Competition in Public Services Act |
| Message | This will encourage police brutality and bigoted postal services. |
| Date | 23:12:47, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Radical Democratic Party | To | Debating the Competition in Public Services Act |
| Message | On the contrary, security companies that abuse the public will have their contracts revoked. We are intrigued by the concept of "bigoted postal services". Can you elaborate...? |
| Date | 05:53:27, February 15, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Party of Indrala | To | Debating the Competition in Public Services Act |
| Message | Hmm, how can a postal service, or any other service for that matter be bigotted. We were under the impression that bigotry was a human trait. |
| Date | 02:33:18, February 16, 2006 CET | From | Populist Islamic Workers' League | To | Debating the Competition in Public Services Act |
| Message | If they are unregulated there is no way to enforce that the confidentiality of letters is not violated. Private corporations are run by humans. Individual mailpersons are humans. Unregulating them would allow RDP-supporting mailpeople to stop delivering our party newletter to our members, or whatever else they see "unfit." |
| Date | 04:08:52, February 16, 2006 CET | From | Radical Democratic Party | To | Debating the Competition in Public Services Act |
| Message | Unlike state-owned monopolies, which can receive orders from venal communist governments or be controlled by corrupt RGSP trade unionists, private couriers will think twice before acting illegally. They will fear damage to their reputation even more than the criminal code. Besides, if the RGSP does not trust the existing couriers, no regulation will prevent them from opening their own courier company, "Stalin Post". Politicians so confident in their ability to run things, will surely find it easy to run a measly courier. |
| Date | 10:04:24, February 16, 2006 CET | From | Inrala Panjoregu Kiokutou (DPP) | To | Debating the Competition in Public Services Act |
| Message | Great! Many rural dwellers can now look forward to receiving no postal service. |
| Date | 17:20:14, February 16, 2006 CET | From | Radical Democratic Party | To | Debating the Competition in Public Services Act |
| Message | Nonsense. But they can no longer look forward to courier rates subsidised by city dwellers. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 52 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 47 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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