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Bill: Protection of Vital Industries Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progress Party—The Greens
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: January 4336
Description[?]:
We are strongly supportive of the free market in general and hope to foster free market solutions whenever possible. However, there are conceivable situations in which the free market may fail to provide some vital services to society if those services prove to be unprofitable. Therefore, to protect such vital services from completely failing, we propose allowing the government to act as an investor of last resort in such instances. We are not proposing constant government bailouts of all private industries, just nationalization or support for certain industries vital to society that are at risk of failing. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Current: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Proposed: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 12:33:02, January 18, 2018 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Protection of Vital Industries Act |
Message | We support. |
Date | 18:05:20, January 19, 2018 CET | From | Kalistan National Front | To | Debating the Protection of Vital Industries Act |
Message | We are opposed for the simple reason that the people choise which businesses succeed and which don’t. I a business is failing then they should change their management techniques and how they run their business and not rely on taxpayers money to fund their failing corporation. The money should go towards paying the soon to be reduntant employees who work for the companies. |
Date | 18:39:20, January 19, 2018 CET | From | Progress Party—The Greens | To | Debating the Protection of Vital Industries Act |
Message | If a vital industry is unprofitable, it will fail and society will be left without a vital industry— potentially catastrophically. This is not calling for bailouts if just ordinary businesses, this is for vital industries needed for society to function that are failing because they are unprofitable. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes |
Total Seats: 334 | ||||
no | Total Seats: 416 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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