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Bill: Market Intervention Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Bourgeois Socialist Party
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: May 2274
Description[?]:
| To make sure that citizens do not suffer when vital industries fail. |
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 subsidizes private enterprises that face bankruptcy.
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 | 21:58:35, August 22, 2006 CET | From |  Progressive Conservative Party | To | Debating the Market Intervention Bill |
| Message | I agree with this bill. I've proposed it many times but the ULP's veto it. |
| Date | 23:01:21, August 22, 2006 CET | From | United Liberty Party | To | Debating the Market Intervention Bill |
| Message | "but the ULP's veto it." We will continue to do so. We vote no. |
| Date | 23:28:14, August 22, 2006 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Market Intervention Bill |
| Message | We will vote yes. |
| Date | 02:21:02, August 23, 2006 CET | From | Modern Economic Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Market Intervention Bill |
| Message | against |
| Date | 04:40:43, August 23, 2006 CET | From | United Liberty Party | To | Debating the Market Intervention Bill |
| Message | I thought you were supposed to support the Free Market, PCP? And why are the socialist parties supporting bailouts for private businesses? Why not let the capitalist pigdogs reap what they sow? |
| Date | 12:06:43, August 23, 2006 CET | From | Progressive Conservative Party | To | Debating the Market Intervention Bill |
| Message | Well, if we have a vital industry - such as train transport which is important for industry, but uneconomical - if the private sector is unwilling to provide these vital services - then the public sector must, so we can have a good standard of living for our people and also attract foreign companies. - EG. suppose no private company is willing to provide phone services (I don't think any private company wopuld actually phone services here because you've given it free to "low income" families and regulated their prices), no business is going to opperate ina country that has no phone service - it's a vital industry, if the private sector won't provide then the public sector must until such time that it is economical or the private sector is willing to provide it. We vote yes and any capitalist with some cop on would vote yes to this bill too. |
| Date | 14:30:55, August 24, 2006 CET | From | United Liberty Party | To | Debating the Market Intervention Bill |
| Message | If there's a service that businesses are unwilling to provide, we oughta reduce regulations on that industry and reduce the government-related expenses incurred. If it really is a vital industry, then people will want it. When people want something and government keeps its nose out of the situation, then businesses tend to provide that service. "The party rigorously agrees with Margaret Thatchers saying "you can't book the market" and so is vigorously against market regulation." Isn't this another form of market regulation, having the government assume the ROLE of marketplace provider? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 228 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 154 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 118 |
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