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Bill: Boot Strap Act of 2577
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Republican Party (ZC)
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: November 2577
Description[?]:
| The Federal government provides all our nationals with a basic income if not supported by another person. This statement is very hard for the N.F.C. to get it's collective head around. What is to drive people into the work-force or the military or continuing their education to obtain a better job. Why is it that this governments position is that we are universal employers of all those who do not wish to work. It is the citizens mandate to provide taxes not for their government to pay them for doing absolutely nothing. Signed, A. H. Thamion, Minister of Finance |
Proposals
Article 1
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 reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Proposed: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:19:04, May 17, 2008 CET | From |  Democratic Trade Unionist Party | To | Debating the Boot Strap Act of 2577 |
| Message | What for those who have no job prospects? Or those who cannot work? The infirm, mentally ill and those failed by the state? Have you no humanity? |
| Date | 11:27:30, May 17, 2008 CET | From | Saiserist League | To | Debating the Boot Strap Act of 2577 |
| Message | No. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 484 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 116 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In general, role-play requires the consent of all players. |
| Random quote: "Those who are responsible for the national security must be the sole judges of what the national security requires. It would be obviously undesirable that such matters should be made the subject of evidence in a court of law or otherwise discussed in public." - Unattributed member of the the House of Lords on the removal of trade union rights |