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Bill: Subsidizing the Phone Service
Details
Submitted by[?]: Marxist-Socialist 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: May 2335
Description[?]:
| With the act of subsidizing the phone service for low-income families and ensuring that phone companies cannot charge what they want but having a regulated price fixed for middle and upper class Hobrazians will ensure that the phone companies will survive, and will ensure that all Hobrazians can get phone service. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: The state regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Current: The state regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Proposed: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:47:47, December 26, 2006 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Subsidizing the Phone Service |
| Message | Why would we subsidise a non-critical peice of technology? You don't need a phine to survive and so the government should not help you purchase one. Food, yes. Housing, yes. Phones, no. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 194 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 206 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "Socialists like to tout their confiscation and redistribution schemes as noble and caring, but we should ask if theft is ever noble or caring." - Robert Hawes |