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Bill: Minor Regulation Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free People Party
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: February 2212
Description[?]:
This bill reflects on how the government should have more control over the market. |
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: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: There are no regulations on phone service.
Current: There are no regulations on phone service.
Proposed: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 04:24:02, April 07, 2006 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Minor Regulation Bill |
Message | Failing industries almost definitionally harm society because they reduce total happiness. People obviously would rather be spending their money on other things, which is why the industries are failing in the first place. If you're concerned about equality and making the poor better off, then TAX THE RICH AND GIVE THE MONEY TO THE POOR. DO NOT INTERFERE IN THE MARKET, because that creates inefficiency, so the poor and the rich and everyone else is all worse off. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes | Total Seats: 53 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 146 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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