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Bill: Social Safety Net Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Third Way 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: April 2120
Description[?]:
| An act to provide a basic income for the unemployed, not to exceed 90 days without application to the appropriate Ministry for special dispensation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All veterans shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Current: 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 certain period of time.
Proposed: 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 certain period of time.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:46:24, October 01, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Futurists - Saor! | To | Debating the Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | Agreed, this should help to keep the crime rate down. |
| Date | 23:58:24, October 01, 2005 CET | From | Third Way Party | To | Debating the Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | Exactly. |
| Date | 01:13:08, October 02, 2005 CET | From | Left-Hand Path | To | Debating the Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | Are we really proposing bribing criminals in order to keep crime down? That borders on criminal itself when the money paid was taken from taxpayers. |
| Date | 02:18:44, October 02, 2005 CET | From | Third Way Party | To | Debating the Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | No, not at all. It's a fact that crime increases when people are kept below the poverty line and/or kept unemployed. This will ensure that people are able to feed themselves and such so that they won't have to go out and steal to eat. But it isnt permanent. We don't support the idea of entitlement dependency. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 107 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 117 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 31 |
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