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Bill: Less representative, more direct democracy
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian 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: September 2066
Description[?]:
| Article 1: We shouldn't have highly restrictive regulations applied on private education. This destroys standard competition between publicly-financed and private schools as well as lowers quality of schools when comparing Aloria vs. abroad. Also note that 'There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.' sounds as being in some totalitarian state allowing only those information that governments/junta wants. Article 2: There is no need to fund spece exploration from the Alorian budget. We should rather sell concessions/licenses to the private entities and thus earning money from private exploration companies. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards space exploration.
Old value:: The government shall fully fund a state-owned space agency which controls all national space-related activity.
Current: The government shall fully fund a state-owned space agency which controls all national space-related activity.
Proposed: The government shall issue permits to private space-exploration companies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:12:44, June 06, 2005 CET | From |  Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | Fewer seats means less minority representation, leading to a 'dictatorship of the majority'. This will leave less room for individualism, which is surely a libertarian ideal. |
| Date | 18:13:12, June 06, 2005 CET | From | Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | Actually for 1&2 BTW. |
| Date | 19:22:10, June 06, 2005 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | I'm for 1, and for 2 if it were made completely free. |
| Date | 15:46:06, June 07, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | I don't mind it is on further government propositions to agree on whether the licenses are free or sold. Same goes for schools, I have always wanted to provide vouchers by government for everyone who is in need (that mean one step further to free market in education). This way only those in need would get vouchers for private schools and other (rich) people could fund it by themselves. What do you think? If you agree, I could change the article appropriately. |
| Date | 15:47:35, June 07, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | I dropped no. three, but actually I don't agree with your argument about dictate of majority. Giving it green, that would mean to have thousands of representative to be more representative and less under will of majority. Since percentage in parliament stays the same, there is no loss in lowering number of MoPs. |
| Date | 17:46:39, June 07, 2005 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | No permits at all. We have to power to dictate space. All they need is takeoff clearance. |
| Date | 21:16:03, June 07, 2005 CET | From | Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | I'd vote for this as it stands. The government could make money from permits. |
| Date | 23:09:40, June 07, 2005 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | We are taxing space?! |
| Date | 23:14:48, June 07, 2005 CET | From | Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | Just regulating it... You don't want evil super-villains and the like sending giant lasers up there.. More seriously, we don't just want space to fill up full of junk. Maybe we can issue cheap permits to those who can prove that their space mission is in the interests of Aloria. |
| Date | 23:52:34, June 07, 2005 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | Ok, the price... 10,000 USD? |
| Date | 02:01:12, June 09, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | Can I put this to vote, yet? |
| Date | 23:10:43, June 09, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | Helllo? |
| Date | 23:57:18, June 09, 2005 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | We haven't set the price yet. |
| Date | 17:22:09, June 10, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | Is it important to set the price? Remember laws must be general, further details are always set at the lower level (e.g. by government decree) |
| Date | 23:20:19, June 13, 2005 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | Then there is room for unattractive propositions, but ones that are legal, being overpriced and forced to stop. |
| Date | 01:10:01, June 14, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Less representative, more direct democracy |
| Message | It is not possible to set the price when the economic system does not exist. We would be talking about imaginary funds. That's just plain stupid. so I am putting this to vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 230 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 125 |
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