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Bill: Minimum wage Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Conservatives
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: October 2610
Description[?]:
| Economic theory suggests that a minimum wage increases unemployment because it discourages employers from hiring people, as such it harms the very people it is trying to help and therefore should be scrapped. |
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 that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Current: 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.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:33:48, July 23, 2008 CET | From | Hete Brorskap | To | Debating the Minimum wage Act |
| Message | The immediate effect of the passing of this legislation will be to allow greedy, tight-fisted employers to slash the wages of their workforces. Voting for this legislation is voting for someone else's pay cut. Alf Borghild (Chief Gothi of the Hete Brorskap) |
| Date | 04:36:28, July 23, 2008 CET | From | NationalSocialistiska Partiet | To | Debating the Minimum wage Act |
| Message | no fuckin way! this will support capitalism. |
| Date | 10:55:49, July 23, 2008 CET | From | Hete Brorskap | To | Debating the Minimum wage Act |
| Message | Very elegantly put, lol |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 149 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 351 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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