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Bill: Minimum Wage Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Rabble
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: June 2414
Description[?]:
| Just my minimum wage proposal on it's own |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:21:55, June 12, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | A minimum wage increases unemployment because some companies will exist who would have supplied opportunities for work at a lower wage rate and some workers would exist who would take up the work offered. It is immoral to restrict the freedom of people to sell their labour at the market rate. |
| Date | 15:29:11, June 12, 2007 CET | From | The Rabble | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | This bill will not only help give thousands of workers a far better standard of living but will stimulate economic growth as the low waged tend to need to spend rather than save any increase in wealth. |
| Date | 18:29:23, June 12, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | Long-term economic growth is stimulated by saving though... |
| Date | 23:22:51, June 12, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | Minimum wages reduce employment levels... we vote no. |
| Date | 01:10:42, June 15, 2007 CET | From | The Rabble | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | That doesn't hold up if you study real life examples |
| Date | 01:50:57, June 15, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | It is an economic fact. You can't study real life examples because there is no control variable. |
| Date | 17:50:23, June 15, 2007 CET | From | The Rabble | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | I don't want to get into an epistimological debate here but how can something be a fact if it can't be demonstrated in the real world? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 236 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 295 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 219 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics." - Ayn Rand |