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Bill: Failing industries.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Aldurian Peoples 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 2077
Description[?]:
| We should try help vital business' from closing. |
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 does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
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 | 18:54:53, July 02, 2005 CET | From | Humanist Party | To | Debating the Failing industries. |
| Message | If those goods or services where so vital they would be valuable in the market. The fact those companies go bankrupt means they or not, the gouvernment should not waste tax money on that. Let's be clear, whe need this money to tacle poverty, for good healthcare and for good education! |
| Date | 22:33:21, July 02, 2005 CET | From | Individual's Party | To | Debating the Failing industries. |
| Message | I stand by the Humanist's on this topic. The money should be put to much better use elsewhere - and if the goods or services were so vital, they would be valuable in the market. Cheers to the Humanist Party. |
| Date | 12:51:45, July 03, 2005 CET | From | Humanist Party | To | Debating the Failing industries. |
| Message | Don't cheer to loud, our voters might think where liberal ;). |
| Date | 14:13:17, July 03, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Failing industries. |
| Message | It is more than possible for vital goods or services to NOT be valuable on the market. For example, there could be a drug for a horrible disease that is not doing well on the market because that disease mostly affects the poor, who can't afford the drug. Natural monopolies (industries that naturally tend towards monopoly), like the railways, are another example. |
| Date | 03:31:52, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Individual's Party | To | Debating the Failing industries. |
| Message | You do bring up a valid point, C.P.E., but you forget that the middle-class and upper-class will still be able to afford the drugs, which would invariably keep it at a reasonably higher value than, say, a product such as Dollar Piņata Toys. Although the point regarding natural monopolies is a good one, instead of spending money on subsidizing - we can simply impose some regulations to keep strong monopolies on the market in check. |
| Date | 22:59:54, July 06, 2005 CET | From | Aldurian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Failing industries. |
| Message | Vital goods/services can be failing due to poor management. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 58 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 38 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 4 |
| Random fact: Real-life organisations should not be referenced in Particracy, unless they are simple and generic (eg. "National Organisation for Women" is allowed). |
| Random quote: "John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?" - Emma Goldman |