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Bill: Democratic Workplaces Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Mutualist Party of Cildania
Status[?]: defeated
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: March 2316
Description[?]:
| To assist the Cildanian people in being able to own and operate businesses |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Current: The government requires all businesses to be run by Democratic Workers' Councils.
Proposed: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:28:00, November 15, 2006 CET | From |  One Cildania Party | To | Debating the Democratic Workplaces Act |
| Message | The government has no right to intervene in markets. |
| Date | 19:38:38, November 15, 2006 CET | From | Union for a Responsible Republic | To | Debating the Democratic Workplaces Act |
| Message | The LP stands with the OCP on this. |
| Date | 10:44:04, November 16, 2006 CET | From | Cildanian Communist Party | To | Debating the Democratic Workplaces Act |
| Message | The govornment has every right to intervine in markets. |
| Date | 13:16:14, November 17, 2006 CET | From | Mutualist Party of Cildania | To | Debating the Democratic Workplaces Act |
| Message | There are (at least) two good reasons to support this act, the first is that it empowers ordinary Cildanians to participate more fully in the economic life of the Republic, not just as consumers or as wage-slaves. The second reason is an equity issue to do with 'The primitive accumulation of capital' that is that capital was initially created by expropriating the property of others.Capitalism itself is the big ‘expropriating’ force, suppressing private property of the means of production for many, in favour of private property for a few. Thus this act only seeks to restore the balance. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 83 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 175 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 167 |
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