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Bill: Royalist Anti-Spending Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Royalist Confederacy
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: January 2496
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state guarantees child benefit to both low-income families and large families.
Current: The state guarantees child benefit to both low-income families and large families.
Proposed: The state does not provide child benefit.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on subsidising contraception.
Old value:: The government offers free contraceptives in pharmacies and public toilets.
Current: The government offers free contraceptives in pharmacies and public toilets.
Proposed: The government does not supply free or discounted contraceptives.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Current: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
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: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Current: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Proposed: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:23:47, December 03, 2007 CET | From | "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party | To | Debating the Royalist Anti-Spending Act |
| Message | Won't ever support a single of this proposals. |
| Date | 13:50:20, December 03, 2007 CET | From | Monarchist Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Royalist Anti-Spending Act |
| Message | Im afraid MPH cannot support this because this would hit very hard the poor families and children. |
| Date | 17:12:52, December 03, 2007 CET | From | Monarchist Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Royalist Anti-Spending Act |
| Message | MPH has changed its mind and will support this afterall. |
| Date | 19:26:10, December 03, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Union | To | Debating the Royalist Anti-Spending Act |
| Message | The state needs to care for its people. We shall not support this. |
| Date | 20:53:21, December 03, 2007 CET | From | SocLib '82 | To | Debating the Royalist Anti-Spending Act |
| Message | This is an outrage! Hutori will be the standard bearer of poverty and strife throughout Terra. |
| Date | 21:51:58, December 03, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Nationalists Party | To | Debating the Royalist Anti-Spending Act |
| Message | I find this insulting to the people of Hutori. We should be working to help the people, not lose their faith in us. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 77 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 150 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 42 |
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