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Bill: National Housing Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Liberals Party
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 2474
Description[?]:
| By the grace and authority of the Senate assembled, let it be enacted an Act: To assist low-income earners with the cost of accomodation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: All housing is privately-owned.
Current: All housing is privately-owned.
Proposed: All housing is private but rent is subsidised for low-income households.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:10:46, October 21, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the National Housing Act |
| Message | Why? The other bill works better by actually giving low-income families homes, rather that putting them on government mortgages and rent that never helps but traps families in a dead-end world. |
| Date | 09:26:00, October 21, 2007 CET | From | Free Liberals Party | To | Debating the National Housing Act |
| Message | The problem with the bill submitted by the Socialists is that it expects the government to be providing solutions where the government can not provide a solution. However, this bill offers a hand-up in a world, by our view, where everyone possesses the same, natural right to become who they can be whether that aspiration is translated into wealth, personality or intellect. This bill says that our government would rather give you a hand up than a hand out - and that private providers, and a varied choice of them, does every service 100 times better than a government the citizens have no choice in but from which to take. |
| Date | 16:26:54, October 21, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the National Housing Act |
| Message | Easy for the rich capitalist to say, who's never experience a life under 50,000 a year. Next, you'll want to feed me the story "they're poor because they're lazy." |
| Date | 00:35:52, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Free Liberals Party | To | Debating the National Housing Act |
| Message | It should be the experience of a life on a low-income that would motivate one to do better. Ultimately, this bill endeavours to subsidise rent which is much more cost effective than giving away houses. And poverty is only about laziness when the one in poverty knows how to get out of it, or at least, lets up on opportunities to better enrich their lives. The socialist is misguided by thinking that money is happiness and that poverty is imposed upon. |
| Date | 01:37:34, October 22, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the National Housing Act |
| Message | "It should be the experience of a life on a low-income that would motivate one to do better." It is impossible. That's why they are poor. 15 million children starve in poverty each year. 2/3 of the world lives poverty each year. You dirty capitalists talk about the failures of socialism each day, but where are the successes of capitalism? For each one success, I vow to name of 100 failures, as many as I can off the top of my head within 10 minutes of discussion. I challenge you to a debate. I challenge you, but I know you won't. In your mind, you've got it imprinted into your head that everyone is born equal and free and can get rich tomorrow if they really put their mind to it. http://z6.invisionfree.com/communist - You don't need to log in or anything, but as a guest, make your most objective post to socialism, or your most pro pig-richie statement. In one week, you will call yourself a socialist. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 210 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 345 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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