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Bill: Meyer Equality Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Catholic Workers Union
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: August 2265
Description[?]:
| The IADP has long struggled to provide Telamon with an equality of opportunity and care. We believe that a truly compassionate commonwealth, one in which the people are united together in common purpose, should not allow the very wealthy to buy better medical care than the rest of the people. Furthermore, we believe that ability and ambition should determine success, not the wealth of one's parents and their ability to pay for a better preparatory education. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Current: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Proposed: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Current: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Proposed: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Article 4
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: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Current: Religious schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Religious schools are not allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:25:20, August 05, 2006 CET | From | Progressive Democratic Party | To | Debating the Meyer Equality Bill |
| Message | We don't agree with dragging everyone down to a similar level and calling it "equality", as should be clear by now. I would ask why private medical clinics are so dangerous that the state should seek to close them down - on a level with criminal gangs - but it seems banning useful things like healthcare is the order of the day here now. A compassionate commonwealth would seek to make its citizens as healthy as possible. A compassionate commonwealth would seek to make its citizens as well-educated as possible - and redistribute according to personal circumstances afterwards. This can only do harm to the people of this Commonwealth and we thus oppose. |
| Date | 19:55:54, August 05, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Meyer Equality Bill |
| Message | A compassionate commonwealth would do the things you say, and do so on a public level at which all members of society can recieve equal benefits. We're not talking about closing down private institutions because they are bad, but because they are immoral. Wealth should not guarantee you better care in a life or death situation, nor should it guarantee your children a superior education. In many matters, wealth has its advantages. But in life and death, as well as the development of skills among children, it should not. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 251 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 46 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 304 |
| Random fact: The voters enjoy active parties who take upon themselves the initiative to create laws. |
| Random quote: "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." - Aristotle |