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Bill: Lex Iucimuria de Monopoliis
Details
Submitted by[?]: Factio Republicana Socialistica
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: May 4410
Description[?]:
| Yukimuran Law on Monopolies Senators, Our current anti-trust legislation prohibits the emergence of monopolies and actively breaks up companies that have a disproportionate share of the market, and for good reason. Monopolies are harmful to consumers as they can arbitrarily dominate individuals, increase costs, and are not subject to the pressures of competition. However in certain cases monopolies are in fact required. In cases of natural monopolies, such as public utilities, large-scale infrastructure makes the provision of services more efficient and able to take advantage of economies of scale, eliminating duplicative overhead, and providing a greater volume of specialized services, proving beneficial to consumers and leading to price reductions. For this reason we propose to legalize monopolies in certain key industries, under government oversight, in order to avoid duplication, assure low prices, efficiency, and access to services, and to allow public oversight over important industries. With the passing of this bill, monopolies shall be enforced in the following areas: I. Defense industries, which shall continue to be under government monopoly. II. Health insurance; all existing health insurance cooperatives will be required to merge in order to provide a single independent national insurance cooperative. III. Public utilities, including the electric grid, water supply, the post office, and railways, which shall each be operated by a single independent private cooperative. IV. Hospitals in rural areas; each village shall be serviced by a single cooperative hospital, owned by the local community. In all other industries monopolies shall remain strictly prohibited and actively broken up. Cooperative federations, also known as secondary cooperatives, that is local, national, regional, and international coordinating structures between individual cooperatives, shall not be considered monopolies for the purposes of this law and shall remain legal. Hiroto Yukimura Senator |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on the nation's power grid.
Old value:: Each region owns and maintains its own power grid.
Current: The national grid is fully owned by the state.
Proposed: A single private company owns and maintains the national power grid.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely private.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: Health care is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for all citizens.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Policy on monopolies (this general law is superceded by other laws relating to specific parts of the economy).
Old value:: Monopolies are forbidden, and are actively broken up.
Current: Monopolies are only forbidden in specific sectors of the economy.
Proposed: Monopolies are only actively enforced in specific sectors of the economy.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: Private companies operate TOCs throughout the country.
Current: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Proposed: There is a single privately owned national TOC.
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 506 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 244 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "More Medicament Manufacture take the profits, workers take the factory" - Boros Norbert, former Endralonian businessman |