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Bill: Welfare and Housing Reform Act, 2611
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Rutanian Libertarian Union
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: December 2611
Description[?]:
| An act to remove all loopholes that encourage the continuing dependence on government for sustinence. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state guarantees child benefit to both low-income families and large families.
Current: The state guarantees child benefit to families classified as low-income or poor.
Proposed: The state does not provide child benefit.
Article 2
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.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Current: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Proposed: All housing is privately-owned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:48:52, July 25, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Welfare and Housing Reform Act, 2611 |
| Message | We could accept only article 3. |
| Date | 14:47:07, July 25, 2008 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Welfare and Housing Reform Act, 2611 |
| Message | "And if people are homeless or in poverty and cannot afford private housing or private rental accomodation, they can just starve, or die on the streets...? There may be loopholes under the current system, but the new system will lead to far greater abuses and the far greater and obscene suffering of the human beings with whom we share and inhabit our nation. I would rather see a system with loop holes, but coupled with a guarantee that no-one need die homeless or face having no home, than face a system in which abuses will continue, but without any guarantee of the basic necessities of life. If abuse or loop-holes are a constant of BOTH systems, a guarantee of human dignity is not." Chloe McCarthy, Labour Party Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 237 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 362 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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