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Bill: Triman Economic Security 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: December 2272
Description[?]:
| This is a rational path to take, somewhere between nationalization and privitization. We offer it as a compromise. The idea is that certain businesses which are now private provide necessary services that if they go bankrupt, they can cripple the nation's economy. Power plants which are private, airliners, trains, some private clinics in places where no public clinic exists, etc. can severely threaten our economy if they go bankrupt. These services should be saved for the good of the economy. That's common sense. |
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: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Proposed: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:45:54, August 19, 2006 CET | From | Progressive Democratic Party | To | Debating the Triman Economic Security Bill |
| Message | That's why we have state intervention in industries like electricity and transport, and universal service provision in free healthcare, so we don't think we need this, since the economic status quo will probably stand up to a vote in the Commons. |
| Date | 19:20:30, August 20, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Triman Economic Security Bill |
| Message | Airlines aren't owned by the government, neither are many transportation services, some essential defense companies, etc. This is necessary unless we are to endorse nationalization in certain sectors all the time. |
| Date | 19:50:59, August 20, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Triman Economic Security Bill |
| Message | We hope the SSPP will see through the libertarian ideological rigidness of the other party. |
| Date | 22:02:15, August 20, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Triman Economic Security Bill |
| Message | This is a wrong-headed (an expression I borrowed from the Northern Ireland Office-don't ask) proposition. What this signifies is that companies don't have to worry about doing well or even breaking even because when they fail, the government will step in and inject money. This results in nothing but inflation, unemployment and a decline in GDP. |
| Date | 23:05:12, August 21, 2006 CET | From | Progressive Democratic Party | To | Debating the Triman Economic Security Bill |
| Message | It is unfortunate that reckless capitalists will now have a state security net to protect them. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 157 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 119 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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