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Bill: Minimum Wage Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa)
Status[?]: passed
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 2447
Description[?]:
| A bill to set a minimum wage. |
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 considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:51:48, August 23, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | More socialism, more unemployment, higher taxes...Aloria this is what you elected. After 20 yrs. of peace, freedom and prosperity get prepared tor a new era of internationalism, statism and welfare. |
| Date | 01:43:56, August 24, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | This will drive out jobs and create unemployment. |
| Date | 03:28:59, August 24, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | Don't count on it. Only 12 nations in all of Terra don't already have at least a minimum wage. And we hope the new Treaty for International Wage Standards will decrease that number even more. |
| Date | 04:29:07, August 24, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | We have huge amounts of outsourced jobs here too. Important factory jobs, the jobs of people that voted for you. Now think if they lost their jobs, that would put an imbalance in the economy that might cause a depression. |
| Date | 15:38:45, August 24, 2007 CET | From | United Laborers | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | If these people who will supposedly lose their jobs aren't being paid enough to subsist upon then there is something seriously wrong. |
| Date | 17:48:37, August 24, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | A subsistence wage--causing a *depression?* Not bloody likely. |
| Date | 23:11:02, August 24, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | Wait and see when jobs are outsourced. |
| Date | 23:25:11, August 24, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | If, after 20 years of conservative rule, our economy is dependent on sub-subsistence wages to avoid a depression, we've got much more serious problems than the minimum wage. |
| Date | 23:25:50, August 24, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | I do hope Aloria isn't really a third-world economy. |
| Date | 02:58:39, August 25, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Bill |
| Message | It isn't. It is an industrialist economy, reminiscent of the days when factories were king in most countries. We also have safety laws and low unemployment (though it will rise). Don't mess with a tried and true formula, please. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 285 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 221 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 94 |
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