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Bill: Abolishment of minimum wage legislation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Civic and Economic Liberty
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: September 2483
Description[?]:
| Minimum wage: -Hurts the least employable by making them unemployable, in effect pricing them out of the market. -Hurts small businesses, benefits large ones. -Increases prices for customers of employers of minimum wage workers, which would pass through to the general price level, which disproportionately affects the prices that poor people pay for goods and services. -Does not improve the situation of those in poverty. "Will have only negative effects on the distribution of economic justice. Minimum-wage legislation, by its very nature, benefits some at the expense of the least experienced, least productive, and poorest workers." -Decreases opportunities for low-skilled workers to gain the training and responsibility they need to move up the wage ladder. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Standard_theory_criticism) |
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 that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:34:44, November 08, 2007 CET | From |  Green Leaf Libertarian Freedom Front | To | Debating the Abolishment of minimum wage legislation |
| Message | Not with us. |
| Date | 05:53:03, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Hulstrian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Abolishment of minimum wage legislation |
| Message | We will not support this act. |
| Date | 16:34:51, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Civic and Economic Liberty | To | Debating the Abolishment of minimum wage legislation |
| Message | We will put it to a vote anyway for the country to see where parties stand on this issue and make decisions accordingly, come election time. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 155 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 345 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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