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Bill: Power to the People, Right On!
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Radical Libertarian 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: December 2280
Description[?]:
| In order to improve effeciency of power distribution and get more power to the people at a lower cost, we wish to privitize the national grid to align ownership with the power sources. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on the nation's power grid.
Old value:: The national grid is fully owned by the state.
Current: Each region owns and maintains its own power grid.
Proposed: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:30:34, September 01, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Intellectual Party | To | Debating the Power to the People, Right On! |
| Message | How does handing the national grid over to multiple private companies increase effieciency and lower costs? |
| Date | 21:32:40, September 01, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Power to the People, Right On! |
| Message | Competition forces any business entity to operate more effieciently in order to survive and grow. If there is a monopoly, state run or private run, there is less incentive to decrease costs or increase productivity, as the consumers have no other choices. A slong as there are multiple companies, they will be competing with one another as wellas with any other company which wishes to enter the business. The increases in effieciency will be passed on to the consumer in the form of lower costs for the operation of the grid. |
| Date | 00:57:43, September 02, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Intellectual Party | To | Debating the Power to the People, Right On! |
| Message | First of all the argument that competition creates efficiency is not necessarily true. Privatising industries can lead to corruption and laziness and a far greater concern put on profits than safety or quality of product, if a company believes that it can still make the same amount of money and cut corners, it will. However if a company is nationally owned it has one duty, to provide the best service possible. |
| Date | 13:13:26, September 02, 2006 CET | From | AM Meria Separatist Alliance | To | Debating the Power to the People, Right On! |
| Message | "The MSA fully backs this proposal." -- Michael Makaveilli |
| Date | 14:13:14, September 03, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Power to the People, Right On! |
| Message | The Axis Mundi Revolution must agree with our allies in the Liberal Intellectual Party... while market forces MAY lead to competition and better service... they can just as easily leas to power concentrated in the hands of untouchable monopolies, that use their superior funding to smash any nascent competition. With a good regulatory body operating independently, we can see that a nationalised industry could be at least as competitive as any private venture. Moreso, perhaps... because the state can channel resources in a way that no coalition of private interests can ever achieve. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 317 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 184 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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