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Bill: Welfare Reform Bill of 2357
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Party of Dorvik
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: October 2357
Description[?]:
| State's welfare system is not only rather inefficient & expensive, but also very bureaucratic which increases the chances for corruption & embezzlement not to mention even bigger expenses. Nannying of the state makes people more dependent on it, restricting personal freedom and encourages to irresponsibility & indifference as the state takes care from an individual instead of the individual him/herself. Only working and enterpreunership creates real welfare for the nation and its people. Subsidizing the cost of pharmaceutical drugs skews their prices, increases chances for drug abuse and makes people more dependent from the state. People must get children and provide them by their own income instead of state giving benefits: getting a child shouldn't be a question of money but parental affection, responsibility and social stability. Fraud in the case of child benefit is especially dangerous if a child is brought up into the world just to get benefit but then he/she gets neglected. Welfare system needs reforms. * Walther Clark, Senator and Chairman of the MPD |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state guarantees child benefit to both low-income families and large families.
Current: The state guarantees child benefit to all families.
Proposed: The state does not provide child benefit.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Current: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Proposed: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:14:11, February 09, 2007 CET | From | Union of Public Employees | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Bill of 2357 |
| Message | As a result, Unions of Desk Clerks, Civil Servants, and Public Employees have created a party to express displeasure at the possible fate of becoming a new addition to the job pool. |
| Date | 13:03:52, February 09, 2007 CET | From |  Democratic Party of Dorvik | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Bill of 2357 |
| Message | This reform concerns only small partion of state's employees so we wouldn't expect too much support from these people, vast majority of them already being members of consisting parties. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 132 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 167 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Dorvik is a nation based on Germanic and old Prussian cultures, it is located on the far north of Artania, making it an almost arctic nation. |
| Random quote: "Under every stone lurks a politician." Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C |