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Bill: Civil Welfare Act 2614
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federation Aldegarian 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: May 2615
Description[?]:
| Saving our budget from potential parasites |
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 all families.
Proposed: The state guarantees child benefit to families classified as low-income or poor.
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. However, the provision of this is not to exceed a certian period of time.
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's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state offers a voluntary public pension, combined with other voluntary private pensions.
Current: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Proposed: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:40:55, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Pantheism Capitalistic Party UCF | To | Debating the Civil Welfare Act 2614 |
| Message | Finally some sense. Let's unite to crush the parasites and the leftist who give them money to keep their votes. |
| Date | 02:34:48, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Socialist Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Civil Welfare Act 2614 |
| Message | Some sense is giving those to less fortunate and closing the gaps in society. It's a little smarter than giving to the already rich and keeping everyone down. We are not the crazy ones. |
| Date | 03:05:59, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Civil Welfare Act 2614 |
| Message | And lazy ones too. |
| Date | 15:23:08, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Pantheism Capitalistic Party UCF | To | Debating the Civil Welfare Act 2614 |
| Message | How about not giving money away at all and letting people keep what they earn? |
| Date | 15:39:38, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Federation Aldegarian Party | To | Debating the Civil Welfare Act 2614 |
| Message | ah, how we all hate the laissez-faire thinking |
| Date | 15:50:28, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Federation Aldegarian Party | To | Debating the Civil Welfare Act 2614 |
| Message | OK imagine families breeding themselves out-of-limit just for the government money. We're not exactly abandoning them, but we're not supposed to pamper them as much as we do now. Same thing goes with unemployment: the unemployed need jobs, not government subsistence |
| Date | 18:16:41, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Zoroastrian People's Party | To | Debating the Civil Welfare Act 2614 |
| Message | We disagree with characterizing the needy as parasites. We certainly don't see those who come to our religious charities in need as parasites. We however will go along. |
| Date | 18:47:46, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Federation Aldegarian Party | To | Debating the Civil Welfare Act 2614 |
| Message | PCP, this is by no means overthrowing leftists, but an effort to correct the citizens' morality on using the budget. |
| Date | 19:45:13, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Civil Welfare Act 2614 |
| Message | What is the worst thing about this bill, is the fact that Article 2 exists. We'd have voted yes if Article 2 was not here... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 272 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 372 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 106 |
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