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Bill: Economic Clampdown
Details
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: April 2353
Description[?]:
| "We shall bring all means of production under the control of the state and work against moves to undermine the economy itself." -- Yechezkel Sheetrit |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 40
Current: 18
Proposed: 100
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Proposed: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Current: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Proposed: Trade unions may exist and all workers must have membership in one.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers have the right to strike.
Current: All workers have the right to strike.
Proposed: All strikes are illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:43:38, January 30, 2007 CET | From | Phalangists | To | Debating the Economic Clampdown |
| Message | "We shall back such a measure, placing industry under our hands." |
| Date | 01:50:43, January 31, 2007 CET | From | Red Anarchy Faction | To | Debating the Economic Clampdown |
| Message | "You shall become the victims of your own irony." |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 141 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 152 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 97 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." - Marcus Aurelius |