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Bill: Pensions Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamonese Communist 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: December 2618
Description[?]:
| The state has a responsibility to provide the elderly with a decent standard of living so they can live in dignity. We distrust private pensions because most of them are money-making scams which rip the public off, but in the hope of achieving consensus, for the time being we will not propose outlawing them. Albert Brocklehurst (General Secretary of the Telamonese Communist Party) |
Proposals
Article 1
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 | 22:46:30, August 07, 2008 CET | From | Regional Acronym Political Establishment | To | Debating the Pensions Act |
| Message | This bill conflicts with our ideology. Specifically, our hatred of the elderly. |
| Date | 01:49:27, August 08, 2008 CET | From | Telamonese Communist Party | To | Debating the Pensions Act |
| Message | Gerontophobes! |
| Date | 12:08:42, August 09, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the Pensions Act |
| Message | There us no reason to force people to participate in a state pension program. Daunte Woodson Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 184 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 317 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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