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Bill: End of the Rope: Death to the Parasites!
Details
Submitted by[?]: Order of Valtiel
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: January 2393
Description[?]:
| Time to bring an end to the welfare state and the eternal cycle of parasites that it promotes. Let us have the liberty to rise and/or fall on our own two feet as individuals. |
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 Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Current: All adults shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Proposed: All veterans shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Current: The state operates a compulsory, public pension system.
Proposed: The state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Current: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Proposed: All housing is privately-owned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:25:10, April 21, 2007 CET | From | Dranland Worker's Party | To | Debating the End of the Rope: Death to the Parasites! |
| Message | GCPD, we can understand its purpose. but if you succeed to pass this, Dranland would be mammonism nation, as a result, people in poverty get more frustration and our society would be hard to living. |
| Date | 05:35:39, April 21, 2007 CET | From | Freeminded People's Party | To | Debating the End of the Rope: Death to the Parasites! |
| Message | All right. However, we object strongly to Article 4; we shall bring forward a bill to reinstate the old pension system if this passes. |
| Date | 06:37:09, April 21, 2007 CET | From | United People's Socialist Party | To | Debating the End of the Rope: Death to the Parasites! |
| Message | Are you trying to undo all that i have spearheaded |
| Date | 17:56:37, April 21, 2007 CET | From | Order of Valtiel | To | Debating the End of the Rope: Death to the Parasites! |
| Message | I am trying to end the cycle of dependency that you have created UPSP! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 227 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 314 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 59 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "Colonialism or imperialism, as the slave system of the West is called, is not something that is just confined to England or France or the United States. The interests in this country are in cahoots with the interests in France and the interests in Britain. It's one huge complex or combine, and it creates what's known not as the American power structure or the French power structure, but an international power structure. This international power structure is used to suppress the masses of dark-skinned people all over the world and exploit them of their natural resources." Malcolm X |