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Bill: Liberty Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
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: April 4497
Description[?]:
| “We believe that there are obvious signs of big government that is strangling our state, We need to relieve the people and relieve the market.” -Liberal Democratic Party Chairman Ceaser Furhat |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates large, national banks, but small community based private banks are allowed.
Current: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Proposed: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Energy regulation.
Old value:: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Current: Energy is provided by nationalised companies.
Proposed: Energy is provided by private, unregulated companies but subsidies are given to those on a low income.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards daily working hours.
Old value:: Daily working hours are regulated by the government.
Current: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Proposed: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Current: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Article 5
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 to change Policy on monopolies (this general law is superceded by other laws relating to specific parts of the economy).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 only actively enforced in specific sectors of the economy.
Current: Monopolies are only actively enforced in specific sectors of the economy.
Proposed: There is no policy on monopolies, they are unregulated.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:10:33, December 07, 2018 CET | From | United Kalistani Worker’s Front | To | Debating the Liberty Act |
| Message | Absolutely not. What you are suggesting is not “Liberty”, it is throwing away decades of advancement and abandoning Kalistan’s workers to their fate. |
| Date | 16:39:59, December 07, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) | To | Debating the Liberty Act |
| Message | Ahh you leftists and your “workers”.You think you serve the people with your jargons and inefficient economic policies but really all you do is limit advancement in our economic and technological sector,The Free Market serves best and the left-wing cancer that has plagued our nation have lulled our people to sleep with promise to “protect” them but in reality you have enslaved and pulled the nation into poverty ! |
| Date | 17:20:22, December 07, 2018 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Liberty Act |
| Message | We do wish to free the market from government chains eventually, but this bill, which provides no provisions for converting all of the public companies to private ones, would destroy half of our economy AND take a shot at the rights and liberties of the workers and citizens of Kalistan. We don't support taking away workers rights, but we do support returning some industries to the freed market, but not without provisions that would prevent the collapse of the nation. We'll vote against this bill, but would consider freeing up the market in the future. |
| Date | 21:51:20, December 07, 2018 CET | From | United Kalistani Worker’s Front | To | Debating the Liberty Act |
| Message | Oh? And how much did your corporate bankrollers pay you to say that, LDP? |
| Date | 22:08:55, December 07, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) | To | Debating the Liberty Act |
| Message | Do not mistake us with yourselves,it is you Lefties that love to hug your commie brethren of the outside world and work against the state,our aims,goals and thought come from the people and by the people,and the message is clear:NO BİG GOVERNMENT ! LİBERTY OR DEATH ! |
| Date | 23:36:05, December 07, 2018 CET | From | United Kalistani Worker’s Front | To | Debating the Liberty Act |
| Message | And we ask you- is international solidarity really such a bad thing? Is a world where people are not divided by such arbitrary things as class not to be strived for? |
| Date | 23:38:52, December 07, 2018 CET | From | United Kalistani Worker’s Front | To | Debating the Liberty Act |
| Message | And we ask you- is international solidarity really such a bad thing? Is a world where people are not divided by such arbitrary things as class not to be strived for? |
| Date | 10:45:17, December 08, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) | To | Debating the Liberty Act |
| Message | Classes are not there to divide,they are there to create incentive for competition,to create the will to do more,to achieve more,that is what your people lack the understanding for ! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 140 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 90 |
| Random fact: Whilst the use of non-English languages can be appropriate for nation names, party names, constitutional titles and other variables, English is the official language of communication in the game. All descriptive texts and public communications should be in English or at least appear alongside a full English translation. |
| Random quote: "This administration is not sympathetic to corporations; it is indentured to corporations." - Ralph Nader |