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Bill: New official retirement age
Details
Submitted by[?]: SPIDER PIG REPUBLIC
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: October 2502
Description[?]:
| The new official retirement age shall be the following. Many people think that they are able to work past 65 but they are sometimes mistaken. This bill is to protect their wellbeing. The old people of the nation are our family we need them and they need us. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The professional retirement age.
Old value:: 69
Current: 64
Proposed: 65
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:24:41, December 16, 2007 CET | From | ChaZown / Democratic Zionist Labor Party | To | Debating the New official retirement age |
| Message | We'd like to inject some context into this debate. The vast majority (44 of 58, or 76 percent) of nations that have set a professional retirement age have set it at 65 or less. 29 of 58 - or exactly 50 percent - of countries have set it at exactly 65. Consider: 4 have set it at 55. 1 at 56. 7 at 60. 1 each at 62, 63, and 64. 29 at 65 2 at 66 3 at 67 1 (us) at 69 6 at 70 and 2 at 75. We think that having a professional retirement age that is higher than 84 percent of our nation's peers is, well, a bit excessive. There are many good reasons to lower the retirement age. First, retirement allows older citizens a much needed break from the working world, allowing them to attend to their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Second, it allows younger people more opportunity to move up the career ladder faster. Third, it strengthens families by allowing folks to be full-time grandparents. We support this legislation. |
| Date | 13:30:34, December 16, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the New official retirement age |
| Message | "The obvious problem with this is that it will require a large amount of new taxes to fund. In addition, while it will probably have smaller effect on the private sector due to its flexibility, it will create a large skills shortage in the public sector for at least the next six or seven years. We could support a one year decrease now coupled with the end of public pension, however as this bill stands it would be irresponsible to pass it." -Yakov Eleazar, Finance Minister |
| Date | 17:23:11, December 16, 2007 CET | From | SPIDER PIG REPUBLIC | To | Debating the New official retirement age |
| Message | You are right to think the way that you do, but saying that passing this bill would be irresponsible after what you have been doing with Sekowo and other nations it makes me curious about what your priorities are at the current moment. For what you have done with other nations for example GIVING NUCLEAR WEAPONS to other nations. Do you consider that irresponsible??? If not please explain why my bill is so irresponsible. I see no possible way that my bill could be as controversial as your current actions. Also I think that all will benifit from this bill except for people like you who really focus on their own suffering not the sufferring of a 68 year-old man who wants to retire but can not due to the current age that he/she is aloud to. This bill is simply made to save the working body from a time of suferring as they reach their final years. I would think that you would support this bill because for the time I have known you, you have always been looking out for our elders. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 326 | ||||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 34 |
| Random fact: The people in your nation don't like inactive parties. When you often abstain from voting for a bill, they will dislike your party and your visibility to the electorate will decrease significantly. Low visibility will means you are likely to lose seats. So keep in mind: voting Yes or No is always better than Abstaining. |
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