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Bill: Minimum Wage Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Radical Freedom Party
Status[?]: passed
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: June 2128
Description[?]:
| The people of the Federated States of Rutania deserve a fair minimum wage. This is not socialism, it is making sure that our citizens do not starve. A starving citizen cannot be a free citizen. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:31:39, October 19, 2005 CET | From |  Freedom Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Act |
| Message | This is so anti free market. A citizen will not starve as no company would pay such a low wage because they dont want their workers to die anymore than we do. A fed worker is a productive worker |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 361 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 175 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 63 |
| Random fact: Cabinet ministers who disagree seriously with the head of government would usually be expected to resign. Parties within the cabinet may attempt to manoeuvre to replace the head of government though, for example by proposing a new cabinet bill or voting for an early election. |
| Random quote: "We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk." - Eleanor Roosevelt |