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Bill: Minimum Wage Law Adjustment
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamon Minarchist Party
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: July 2572
Description[?]:
| The higher a minimum wage is the more it warps the distribution of labor, this bill seeks to lower the minimum wage to lower levels of distortion in the labor pool while still bearing in mind the sensibilities of other parties and their belief in some sort of market regulation. |
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 considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
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 single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:02:16, May 06, 2008 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Law Adjustment |
| Message | We do not believe that this legislation helps the population of Telamon. We will vote no. - Abdul-Bari Aziz Seif al Din - ~ Caliph of Telamonian Islam ~ ~ Imam of the Islamic Nationalist Faction ~ |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 261 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 199 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "An extremely credible source has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud." - Donald Trump |