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Bill: LF-Privatisation of Welfare Act 2545
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberation Federation
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: March 2546
Description[?]:
| Money for state welfare is obtained by initiating force against individuals. All welfare should be private and charitable. |
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 all families.
Proposed: The state does not provide child benefit.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Proposed: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Current: The state operates a compulsory, public pension system.
Proposed: The state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:46:37, March 14, 2008 CET | From |  Totalitarian Capitalist Party | To | Debating the LF-Privatisation of Welfare Act 2545 |
| Message | This is a wonderful bill.. |
| Date | 17:29:36, March 14, 2008 CET | From | Peoples' Fist Party | To | Debating the LF-Privatisation of Welfare Act 2545 |
| Message | Opposed as inhumane. |
| Date | 01:37:11, March 15, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the LF-Privatisation of Welfare Act 2545 |
| Message | OK, what happened to the Anti-Fascist Party? And what does PPP stand for? |
| Date | 01:39:26, March 15, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the LF-Privatisation of Welfare Act 2545 |
| Message | But what if most people are egoists, like you? Very simple, the people down on their luck starve to death, because the charity cannot be spread around and still mean anything. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 179 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 121 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: It is not allowed to call more than 5 elections in 5 game years in a nation. The default sanction for a player persisting in the early election tactic will be a seat reset. |
| Random quote: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken |