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Bill: Abolish the Minimum Wage
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Liberty Organization
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: March 2402
Description[?]:
| "This Bill is of such importance to the future of Keymon it must be seperated from the remainder of the Liberty Organization's economic reforms. The minimum wage is a pernicious tax on the business leaders of Keymon. It keeps our great nation from achieving full employment and reduces the well-being for many people who would otherwise be employed. Allow citizens to consent to work at any wage they deem acceptable." - Timothy Reed The Liberty Organization Candidate for Minister of Finance |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:34:04, May 09, 2007 CET | From |  Partito Nazionalista | To | Debating the Abolish the Minimum Wage |
| Message | We do not believe that removing the minimum wage is wise at all. We do believing that it should be proposed to: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist. We will oppose this proposal. |
| Date | 21:36:56, May 09, 2007 CET | From | Partito Nazionalista | To | Debating the Abolish the Minimum Wage |
| Message | Workers need some rights, Corporations will abuse this law if it is implemented. There needs to be some sort of fixed price to ensure that every worker is getting paid what they deserve. This proposal will lead to a "Anarcho-Capitalistic" Environment. |
| Date | 23:18:36, May 09, 2007 CET | From | The Liberty Organization | To | Debating the Abolish the Minimum Wage |
| Message | "The Liberty Organization believes in the rights of workers. Workers should have the right to contract their labor at any price the market will bear. It is not the government's place to decide an arbitrary price floor below which such wage negotiation should not occur." - Timothy Reed |
| Date | 00:25:40, May 10, 2007 CET | From | Partito Nazionalista | To | Debating the Abolish the Minimum Wage |
| Message | The Government should have a limited role and this is one of the only roles it should have relating to the workplace. |
| Date | 07:45:00, May 10, 2007 CET | From | Keymon Conservative Party | To | Debating the Abolish the Minimum Wage |
| Message | "While we agree with reforming the current minimum wage, we do believe that there should be a minimum wage of some kind." Kevin Howard Shadow Treasurer |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 127 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Hundreds of vessels were lost while traversing the cold waters of the Sea of Lost Souls. It is located between Seleya and Majatra. |
| Random quote: "When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression." - Jesse Jackson |