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Bill: Abolishing Minimum Wage
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front
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: September 2490
Description[?]:
| Minimum wage is responsible for increased unemployment. Any basic economics course will tell you that. It is inducing inefficiency that actually hurts the poor, more so than it helps. |
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 full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Current: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:55:35, November 21, 2007 CET | From |  Démocrates de la Gauche | To | Debating the Abolishing Minimum Wage |
| Message | Article 1: Any economic course? Name them. We oppose on the grounds that this allows employers to massivly take advantage of the poor and does not regulate to what they can pay the lower classes, thus widening the gap between the rich and the poor, and anyone knows that is not good for a country and you should know that. |
| Date | 21:43:58, November 21, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Jelbanian Party-D.L.J.-D.L.F | To | Debating the Abolishing Minimum Wage |
| Message | we agree again with PFP, so we strongly oppose |
| Date | 08:26:53, November 22, 2007 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Abolishing Minimum Wage |
| Message | Ideally, we'd like the law to be "There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist." |
| Date | 09:18:45, November 22, 2007 CET | From | Bloc Militaire pour Restauration | To | Debating the Abolishing Minimum Wage |
| Message | we strongly support |
| Date | 19:18:59, November 22, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front | To | Debating the Abolishing Minimum Wage |
| Message | Since the PFP doubts the economic grounds for our arguement, we refer them to this page http://www.house.gov/jec/cost-gov/regs/minimum/50years.htm It is simply a case of the price of labor set artificially high so that those who are willing to work for less are unable to find jobs. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 155 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 148 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 132 |
| Random fact: In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass. |
| Random quote: "If a female president can come here and be treated equally, why can't any other woman?" - Jewell C. Stillman, former Lourennais politician (on equal rights in Badara) |