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Bill: Poverty Relief Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Luthori Christian Women's Association
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: May 2425
Description[?]:
| In a civilised society, the government has a responsibility to ensure its poorest citizens a reasonable standard of living. Belinda Braithwaite (Viceroy & Leader of the LCWA) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government. However, the provision of this is not to exceed a certian period of time.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:50:36, July 05, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Vodka and Pimm's Party | To | Debating the Poverty Relief Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, It most certainly does not! The government must ensure that it does not waste the tax money with which it is entrusted! |
| Date | 22:00:41, July 05, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Poverty Relief Act |
| Message | Hear hear! |
| Date | 04:48:23, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Secular Party | To | Debating the Poverty Relief Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The money isn't wasted. It's given as very basic subsistence for a short time to those who are down on their luck. Firing should not mean you can not feed your family if you plan to get working again as soon as possible. I yield the floor. |
| Date | 11:40:31, July 07, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Poverty Relief Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We all know that charities and churches provide soup kitchens and food to those down on their "luck". My own church provides a selection of bacon, sausage, pork and ham dishes every day, FREE OF CHARGE (or rather, paid for out of VOLUNTARY donations, given willingly). This is clearly more cost effective than coercing money from working families to give away to the lazy and inept. I yield the floor. |
| Date | 00:32:54, July 08, 2007 CET | From | Secular Party | To | Debating the Poverty Relief Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Although, we are in conflict with the statements made by the Linen and Pimm's Party, we shall ignore them. That is because it has just come to our attention that the welfare policy proposed gives permanent welfare, as opposed to unemployment insurance. We gladly support state unemployment insurance, but permanent welfare goes too far. As such, we must move our vote to the "nay" column. I yield the floor. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 30 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 70 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Kubrk" is a Jelbic word that has the colloquial meaning "old man" or "geezer". |
| Random quote: "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." - Charles Darwin |