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Bill: Abolition of National Service Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Liberal Alliance (NLA)
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: March 4427
Description[?]:
| A Bill to abolish the term of mandatory civilian national service. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term of civilian national service.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve either a term in the military or a lesser paid term of civilian national service, at their option.
Proposed: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:02:15, July 19, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Alliance (NLA) | To | Debating the Abolition of National Service Act |
| Message | In a 45th century global society, no person should be expected to put their career and opportunities after education on hold to serve national service. National service is an outdated, illiberal and expensive practice that is putting our university graduates behind their competitors and preventing them from getting a kick start in their career. The NLA will propose to the Socialist-led government that national service be abolished. We will also use media to campaign for such a change, using university graduates who have missed great opportunities due to this outdated practice. Zandra Arnold Leader of the New Liberal Party |
| Date | 06:44:16, July 20, 2018 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Abolition of National Service Act |
| Message | We oppose, and we view the National Service Act as a cornerstone of the Kalistani Economy. The Republic guarantees Basic Income, Free medicine, free education, and employment at a living wage to all citizens of the Republic, from cradle to grave. The least we should expect from the citizens in return is Four Years of Service to the Republic. So some college students will have to put off their capitalist dreams for a term of four years. That really is too bad, and abolition of the National Service will undermine the Kalsitani Economy. It has before, and it will everytime someone decides that National Service is tantamount to slavery. The Socialist Party will NEVER vote the National Service Act out of existence. |
| Date | 09:08:05, July 20, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Alliance (NLA) | To | Debating the Abolition of National Service Act |
| Message | The New Liberal Alliance finds it a cruel irony that the Socialist Party, through its many years of government, both provides all the tools our young people need to be the most learned, competitive graduates in the world as a matter of principle, but stunts their achievement through national service and dismisses their careers as "capitalist dreams". Their work is very much real, and can benefit our economy just as well as national service if nurtured by a NLA government that respects it. Seeing no space for us to find agreement, we request that the National Assembly move our proposal to a vote. Zandra Arnold Leader of the New Liberal Alliance |
| Date | 14:43:05, July 20, 2018 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Abolition of National Service Act |
| Message | What more benefit to the Republic can the NLA leader propose than working for 4 years for the Republic during the most productive years of their lives and then NEVER owing national service of any kind ever again? It is a small price to pay for all of the benefits a citizen receives. And it does far more for socialization and patriotism than any other measure Kalistani Government has ever offered. It is the formative experience in a young person's like. The Speaker knows this: She too performed National Service, as I assume everyone else in this Assembly and in this country did. It is the source of love of country. You can go look at a road where you cut grass and said "I kept this stretch of road clean." You can drive over a bridge you built, or you can see a school you taught at, or a hospital that you helped triage sick people in an epidemic, or a port that receives ships from around the world that you helped operate and you can point to it an say "I did that." It is a more concrete contribution to the health and well being of this Country than the paying of taxes or voting ever could be and it is a source of pride and dignity for tens of millions of Kalistani citizens. We would encourage the Leader to look back and not see the 4 years that she will no doubt claim were "stolen" from her but look at the Republic today that she and countless others helped build and maintain. And remember: Without National Service, the work that National Service completes either goes undone or we pay private actors a premium to do. Either way, the Republic suffers because more money to the private sector means less money to provide "all the tools our young people need to be the most learned, competitive graduates in the world as a matter of principle." We oppose. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |
| no | Total Seats: 750 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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