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Bill: Ban Minimum Wage Laws
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Market Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2131
Description[?]:
| We need to ban Minimum Wage Laws, they 1.) produce higher unemplyoment for low skilled workers rather then providing them a good living standard. 2.) make it harder for the youth to even enter the workforce 3.) are useless anyways if set to low. There is also quite an error in the system. Minimum Wage, though considerably lower, is also granted by the general income which is payed to every citizen of the country and is also enacted. Therefore i suggest to ban minimum wage laws or to considerably lower the monetary level to lower the unemployment even more and to solve the double legislation. Whats your opinion on the topic? |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:03:54, October 25, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Ban Minimum Wage Laws |
| Message | :| now it's getting crazy... see... we should ban him... And the government can try to make the youth join the workforce, and also please explain how it makes it harder for the youth to join? (the minimum-wages) It'll be just as hard... Same for the elderly... It is useless when set too low! BRILLIANT! why not abolish it then! DUUUUUUUUH! :| And we have social security... And lowering minimum-wage wouldn't make much more employment... would just give more profit! And when you have a job you wont get social security... so people in social security might be better off... therefore high unemployment! Also this will lower consumption power of the workforce which could make our economy collapse. (there are actual proposals about this so you can ban minimum-wage) |
| Date | 19:05:59, October 25, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Ban Minimum Wage Laws |
| Message | here it is: The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation. There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker. Alternatives: o There is no provision for a minimum wage. o There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist. o There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line. So argument 3 is worthless looking at this bill. (its in the economics section of the proposals) |
| Date | 19:46:47, October 25, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Ban Minimum Wage Laws |
| Message | Abolishing the minimum wage law would result in people earning as little as possible, and living well below the poverty line, besides which your arguements have been debunked by the introduction of the minimum wage in Britain and it not having any negitive effects on Business or the ecomony. I just wonder how much of your thinking is flawed? |
| Date | 23:07:49, October 25, 2005 CET | From | Free Market Party | To | Debating the Ban Minimum Wage Laws |
| Message | As far as i know, only the government made a considerable net plus in employment lately in britain. There are some signs of minimum wage laws not working. And maybe theyre just right with their proposal of "minimum wage" as the actual market price? Our current standing on minimum wage laws is "paying consiberle higher then living standard" or something like that, which is likely to produce at least some unemployment. The fact is: The total money spend on labour in an economy should be the same with minimum wage laws or without. Without there is the possibilty that some may earn less but more people are employed. So whats fair? Some people living at the expense of others because they came first in their job? I guess not... |
| Date | 00:20:27, October 26, 2005 CET | From | Free Market Party | To | Debating the Ban Minimum Wage Laws |
| Message | Ok i am going to just propose a small change in the minimum wage laws. Step by Step politics :) |
| Date | 00:21:06, October 26, 2005 CET | From | Free Market Party | To | Debating the Ban Minimum Wage Laws |
| Message | awww, how is that working, damn ;) i destroyed my proposal! |
| Date | 00:32:22, October 26, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Ban Minimum Wage Laws |
| Message | uhm... a proposal would be nice too... |
| Date | 00:39:43, October 26, 2005 CET | From | Free Market Party | To | Debating the Ban Minimum Wage Laws |
| Message | how can i do that? i am zeh noob ;) |
| Date | 00:50:24, October 26, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Ban Minimum Wage Laws |
| Message | Gag, no. Unless we have an issue where our jobs are exported to third-world countries that lack minimum-wage laws and we're in the critical stages of an economic implosion, we'll keep minimum wage. |
| Date | 15:11:10, October 26, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Ban Minimum Wage Laws |
| Message | somewhere when you propose a bill (not jet send to vote) there is something with: add proposal. If you click there, and then look under the economic sections or you press ctrl-f |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 182 | ||||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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