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Bill: Welfare Reform (2603)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Normand Pluralist Party
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: June 2605
Description[?]:
| The government needs to stop providing a comfortable living to those who refuse to work! It is panum et circensus, and greater civilizations than we have been brought to their knees because of it. Additionally, local governments are best aware of local child benefit needs, and whether or not population growth should be encouraged or not, as well as other various factors such as local cost of living, etc. It is important that we leave this issue in the hands of local governments. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state guarantees child benefit to all families.
Current: The state guarantees child benefit to all families.
Proposed: Child benefit policies are left to local governments.
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 reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:35:28, July 10, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Welfare Reform (2603) |
| Message | While the law is not "fine as it is" for once, we prefer the current law over the proposed. |
| Date | 19:06:51, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Sekowan Independent Party | To | Debating the Welfare Reform (2603) |
| Message | We would like to see people not have a "free ride" promised to them, even if they choose to do nothing but sit at home all day. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 296 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 304 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: The Wolfsheim Virus is not a real actual disease in the conventional medical sense of the term. Rather, it is a cluster of symptoms which are just part of the general socio-economic disease that is capitalism. The main symptoms the sufferers are experiencing are a direct result of capitalist poverty, as in malnutrition, poor housing and so on, combined with psycho-somatic symptoms which are a direct consequence of the contradictions and stresses which are inherent to the capitalist system. ~ Friedrich Pfeiffer, General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party |