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Bill: Welfare Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kolonial Partei
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: August 2780
Description[?]:
| An act to reform social welfare policies. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state guarantees child benefit to all families.
Current: The state guarantees child benefit to all families.
Proposed: The state guarantees child benefit to both low-income families and large families.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Current: The state operates a compulsory, public pension system.
Proposed: The state offers a voluntary public pension, combined with other voluntary private pensions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:50:50, July 01, 2009 CET | From |  Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Act |
| Message | I'm sorry but this is something the FAP is strongly against; like I said in a previous debate, Hulstria is perfectly capable of covering all Hulstrians, in this case child benefit. There are people in middle-income and upper middle-income brackets that struggle with child care costs, not just the poor. |
| Date | 10:54:04, July 01, 2009 CET | From | Kolonial Partei | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Act |
| Message | The only upper middle income families that would have trouble with child care costs would be ones that are particularly large. This bill accounts for that. |
| Date | 16:00:44, July 01, 2009 CET | From | Leutes Kommunistische Liga | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Act |
| Message | This seems reasonable. |
| Date | 20:02:34, July 01, 2009 CET | From | Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Act |
| Message | Still however, Hulstria's economy is not in the state where we need to be dropping universal programs; our funding is large enough to cover everybody. |
| Date | 04:46:25, July 02, 2009 CET | From | Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Act |
| Message | Let me also remind the Diet that if you look at the Crownland population pyramids, the age group from 0-5 contains a large part of the population; we are doing an insult to strip universal coverage. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 333 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 392 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow official national flags of real-life nations or flags which are very prominent and recognisable (eg. the flags of the European Union, the United Nations, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Confederate States of America). |
| Random quote: "Blah blah blah- I'm more of a Leftist than all you puppets... You support cops beating people down and kicking out all the foreigners..." - Omar al-Khali, former Kalistani politician |