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Bill: Welfare Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Conservative Party (ACN&IA)
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 2942
Description[?]:
| We wish to pass a small welfare reform. Should CIL be willing to support it, we will not push through further welfare programs or more extreme ones. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: Child benefit policies are left to local governments.
Current: Child benefit policies are left to local governments.
Proposed: The state guarantees child benefit to families classified as low-income or poor.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
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 certian 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 certian period of time.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:56:48, May 22, 2010 CET | From | Constitutionalist Imperial League (IA) | To | Debating the Welfare Reform |
| Message | OOC: While I dont have a huge problem with this bill (I oppose welfare but this is a small reform), I fear it might screw up my visibility. I'll tell you what exactly I'll do when I'll have seen how the other parties vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 79 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 92 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 30 |
| Random fact: Large scale RP planning (such as wars, regional/continental conflicts, economic collapse, etc.) should be planned (as best as it can be) and should have consent of a majority of players involved. |
| Random quote: "Socialists like to tout their confiscation and redistribution schemes as noble and caring, but we should ask if theft is ever noble or caring." - Robert Hawes |