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Bill: Minimum wage
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Party (marxist-deleonist)
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: August 2567
Description[?]:
| There should be a minimum wage, so every worker and the workers family could get a good life. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: 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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:01:12, April 20, 2008 CET | From |  Future Party - The Realist | To | Debating the Minimum wage |
| Message | No. If someone is bad he should have a bad wage. |
| Date | 16:30:14, April 20, 2008 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Minimum wage |
| Message | Economic suicide. See when you make a minimum wage, all the prices and cost of living go up with it... meaning everyone may have more money but nobody is really any better off than before. Except now you create huge unemployment due to the fact that some workers do not produce as much as the wage, and employers can't afford to hire or keep them. |
| Date | 16:45:13, April 20, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party (marxist-deleonist) | To | Debating the Minimum wage |
| Message | Well this bill is about a minimum wage, so the workers can support themselves and their family without falling below the poverty line. I think the poverty line and the "support" is not only measured in cold cash, but also in essential goods. |
| Date | 02:02:47, April 21, 2008 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Minimum wage |
| Message | no no listen. When you raise a minimum wage, the poverty line goes UP, since everyone has more money, everything will cost more and those under the old poverty line will still be under the new poverty line with minimum wage. |
| Date | 06:20:28, April 21, 2008 CET | From | Cildanian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Minimum wage |
| Message | That's why the minimum wage goes up WITH inflation. |
| Date | 00:03:44, April 22, 2008 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Minimum wage |
| Message | Minimum wage makes inflation rise which makes cost of living rise which makes minimum wage rise which makes inflation rise...... you create an arms race with your own money supply, and the higher the wage goes the more unemployment you create because you price workers out of the market. |
| Date | 01:12:34, April 22, 2008 CET | From | Cildanian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Minimum wage |
| Message | So, having people unemployed because of a minimum wage law is so horrible compared to having people underemployed, and working as near-slaves? |
| Date | 03:48:54, April 23, 2008 CET | From | Justice League of Cildania | To | Debating the Minimum wage |
| Message | slavery is when someone is forcing you to work against your will. Unemployment means you starve. Would you rather eat at 3 Cildar per hour or starve at 5 Cildar per hour? By what right do you have to make that decision for someone else? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 43 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 132 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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