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Bill: Meritocracy Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Centrist Party of Baltusia
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: April 4227
Description[?]:
| We repropose the following |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Public financing of political campaigns
Old value:: All candidates receive public funds but are not allowed to accept donations.
Current: Candidates receive public funds unless they have raised more than a certain amount of money.
Proposed: Campaigns are never publicly financed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign investments.
Old value:: Foreign investors may invest in national companies, but may not get a majority share.
Current: Foreign investors may freely invest in national companies.
Proposed: Foreign investors may freely invest in national companies.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Titles of nobility.
Old value:: Titles of nobility are not granted, but their use is not forbidden.
Current: Titles of nobility may be granted only by the Head of State.
Proposed: No titles of nobility are granted or recognised, their use is forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:10:42, June 15, 2017 CET | From | Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Meritocracy Act |
| Message | I welcome the idea to ban titles of the nobility and the minor political rights which come with them, however unfortunately Articles 2 & 3 force me away from voting in favor of this, I am opposed to Article 3 because it can be problematic if businesses providing things like transport do not act in the national interest, another major concern is the fact that our military is privately owned and would not be exempt from this. I oppose Article 2 because whilst ideally campaigns would be funded by party membership, the unfortunate truth is that if we set up that system it is too difficult to distinguish between those donations and those of large companies or millionaires and billionaires which rig elections in favor of the pro-corporate parties (ooc: Particracy is not detailed enough). This means that publicly funding campaigns is the least bad option that we have available. Sonnie Vernon (Campaign Policy Spokesperson of the Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 635 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 65 |
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| Random quote: "The communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas." - Karl Marx |