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Bill: P.d.l. 3/4246: "Pull the Plug on Fat Cat Failures"
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partito Radicale
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: December 4246
Description[?]:
| "It is a travesty that millions of Istalian Liras are transferred from hard-working taxpayers to failing businesses and industries to save the faces of wealthy, hopeless managers and CEOs every year. The people have had enough of state subsidies for fat cats so lets pull the plug! Pay teachers and nurses fairly and cut energy bills instead!" - Alma Madreswala, Trade and Industry spokesperson |
Proposals
Article 1
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 does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:13:36, July 24, 2017 CET | From | PRO - Cittadini Progressisti | To | Debating the P.d.l. 3/4246: "Pull the Plug on Fat Cat Failures" |
| Message | Evaristo De Berardinis, i Verdi! Financial Affairs Spokesman: ''Fat Cat Failures'' is an incorrect name for those who try to keep up their business. These people mostly have been through a lot and are fighting untill their last breath to maintain their business. Portraying them as '''Fat Cats'' is disgusting. Sure, there are probably some rotten apples in the box, but summarize all these people as ''hopeless managers'' is very, very deplorable. Question for the PR: What will they do when vital businesses fall down and the Istalian economy will suffer deeply(e.g. faillure of water filtering institutions or telephone networks)? |
| Date | 20:14:29, July 24, 2017 CET | From | Partito Radicale | To | Debating the P.d.l. 3/4246: "Pull the Plug on Fat Cat Failures" |
| Message | "We are surprised that a party branding itself as 'green' would speak in favour of the wealthy 1% over greater funding for public sector workers working in critical areas such as health and education. To answer your question, Mr. De Berardinis, Essential services shouldn't falter because they are high in terms of supply and demand, so that doomsday scenario is unlikely to happen. Furthermore, while we assume the Greens support businesses and industries being owned and operated by the super-rich, PR supports a democratic economy which is owned and operated by democratic workers councils. In that sense, access to water and energy, for example, should be a human right and should be part of the commons." - Alma Madreswala, Trade and Industry spokesperson |
| Date | 23:17:52, July 24, 2017 CET | From | Nuova Unione | To | Debating the P.d.l. 3/4246: "Pull the Plug on Fat Cat Failures" |
| Message | Gentile Olivieri We shouldn't help the poor in being poor, but help them in becoming richer. |
| Date | 00:37:51, July 25, 2017 CET | From | Partito Nazionale Democratico | To | Debating the P.d.l. 3/4246: "Pull the Plug on Fat Cat Failures" |
| Message | Luigi Trafelli, Minister of Finance, The only thing I love more than a good old portion of capitalism, is a good old portion of capitalism provided by the left! Delicious! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 319 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 316 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Alduria, Rildanor and Lourenne all have Canrilaise (French) cultures. |
| Random quote: "Someone who wields power in name only can never compete with those who wield it through action." - Franz Reichert, former Luthorian politician |