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Bill: Freedom of industry Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: First Party Of Hobrazia
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: December 2328
Description[?]:
| Industry must be made less of a public institution. Private business can help create jobs and wealth and lead Hobrazia into a new future of discovery with innovative technology and free enterprise. |
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: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Proposed: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: All radio stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Proposed: All radio stations are private.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Current: All TV stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Proposed: All television media are private.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the post office
Old value:: There is a nationalised post office agency. Private post offices are allowed to exist but the services provided by them are regulated.
Current: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are regulated.
Proposed: There is a nationalised post office. Private post office agencies are allowed to exist, and the services provided by them are not regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:12:36, December 10, 2006 CET | From | Marxist-Socialist Party of Hobrazia | To | Debating the Freedom of industry Act |
| Message | The Marxist-Socialist Party of Hobrazia rejects the idea of unregulated systems of government especially with t.v and radio where enemies of Hobrazia can use this as a sign to undermine Hobrazian security. We wholeheartedly reject this idea. |
| Date | 13:54:05, December 10, 2006 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Freedom of industry Act |
| Message | We fail to understand the reasoning behind any of this as it makes little or no sense either economically or for the consumer specifically, not to mention the damage it would do to the infrastructure of the Country. Article 1: This is the biggest problem with the bill. Privatising the grid would be bad enough. Selling off the infrastructure of the Country to a private entity would risk damaging service quality at best, and at worst actually allowing foreign companies to own essential infrastructure of this nation which could lead to the equivalent of them holding this Country to ransom over our power supply. However, this bill goes further and actually breaks up the National Grid into smaller less cohesive entities increasing maintenance costs as each company operates seperate maintenance guidelines, increasing the risksto the consumer as their would be less inter-area cooperation between the grid companies than at present increasing consumer prices, and an overall risk to power supplies to the Country. Article 2/3: Currently the only subsidised media company is HBC which operates competitively alongside private media entities. The Government has no direct control over HBC but HBC in order exist is tied to providing high quality programming and information services. Removing HBC from this requirement and privatising it leads it to operate solely competitively and rather than providing guaranteed highbrow entertainment designed in inform and educate it would become more lowbrow and attempting to please the lowest common denominator within the Country in a futile search for ratings and thusly private income, which could only be bad for the education of our citizens. Artcicle 4: Of all the articles we would be most likely to support this, but we ask; why not regulate the services from a private company? If they lose a parcel, should the consumer not expect that regulations be in place to protect them? Should they not provide a high quality service, should not there be regulations to stop them providing a poor service to the consumer? Regulation is not an evil thing designed to block competition, rather it is designed to guarantee high quality service provision winthin the private sector. |
| Date | 18:51:19, December 10, 2006 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Freedom of industry Act |
| Message | Please do not respond to bills proposed by the First Party of Hobrazia. They are not a recognised political party ( http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=91106) in the Republic of Hobrazia and thus all other parties should vote against these bills. |
| Date | 20:27:41, December 12, 2006 CET | From | Clyrvská Dynastia | To | Debating the Freedom of industry Act |
| Message | Crasp shall not recognise the First dogs. |
| Date | 12:46:52, December 13, 2006 CET | From | Clyrvská Dynastia | To | Debating the Freedom of industry Act |
| Message | OOC - We need the visibility at the moment. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 145 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 171 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 84 |
| Random fact: If there are no parties in your nation with seats, feel free to visit the forum and request an early election on the Early Election Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4362 |
| Random quote: "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." - Franklin D. Roosevelt |