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Bill: Mixed Economy Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Otzma Beiteynu
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes the withdrawal from a treaty. It will require half of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 4222
Description[?]:
| Designed to create a mixed economic system. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Current: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Proposed: The government operates large, national banks, but small community based private banks are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for all citizens.
Current: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Proposed: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Article 4
Withdraw from the Anti-Communism Ratification.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Collective bargaining
Old value:: No employees may engage in collective bargaining
Current: Public and private sector employees have the right to collectively bargain
Proposed: Public and private sector employees have the right to collectively bargain
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:12:11, June 05, 2017 CET | From | תְּקוּמָה | To | Debating the Mixed Economy Bill |
| Message | Dear members of the Otzma Beiteynu, first of all welcoem to the Knesset. Our question is: Is there any reason for these changes and if yes: which? Gurion Rosenstein, prime minister and fraction leader of the DYP |
| Date | 18:17:00, June 05, 2017 CET | From | Otzma Beiteynu | To | Debating the Mixed Economy Bill |
| Message | Dear members of the Democratic Yeudish Party, First, we would like to thank you for welcoming us to the Knesset, secondly, yes. The reason being for these changes, are to increase GDP in the long run by increasing the consumption of the consumer, via installing a mixed economic system, in which the spending power of the worker is increased. Thus, in the long run, increasing the national surplus of the economy. |
| Date | 18:18:38, June 05, 2017 CET | From | תְּקוּמָה | To | Debating the Mixed Economy Bill |
| Message | Could the members of the OB please specifiy which industries they think should be under state ownership? |
| Date | 18:19:54, June 05, 2017 CET | From | Otzma Beiteynu | To | Debating the Mixed Economy Bill |
| Message | Furthermore, the reason for the withdrawing of the treaty, is to change the policy regarding unions, which is inhibited severely by the state having signed the treaty. |
| Date | 18:21:23, June 05, 2017 CET | From | Otzma Beiteynu | To | Debating the Mixed Economy Bill |
| Message | The industries which should be run specifically, are the transportation industry as well as the housing industry. |
| Date | 18:22:48, June 05, 2017 CET | From | Otzma Beiteynu | To | Debating the Mixed Economy Bill |
| Message | The industries which should be run specifically, are the transportation industry as well as the housing industry. |
| Date | 00:32:33, June 06, 2017 CET | From | Third Temple Party | To | Debating the Mixed Economy Bill |
| Message | We will support this bill, as we believe that too much materialism and a loss of love for the common man by faceless businesses will cause G*D to cast us into destruction. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 137 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 514 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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