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Bill: Welfare Payments Act
Details
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 3056
Description[?]:
| Those who cannot support themselves should not be abandoned by the government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: 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.
Current: All adults shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Proposed: All adults shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:01:12, January 04, 2011 CET | From | Bürgerlichen Soziale Union | To | Debating the Welfare Payments Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, People who cannot support themselves should get a job, and "get it together". Our nation is not a charity. The very basic income is fine for any individual. While the provisions cannot exceed a certain period of time. Of course, we may be generous here in the government, but we also have to look after other things, today you have one person using the minimum income; tomorrow you have 10 thousand. While it doubles, triples, etc it breaks the national treasury. While because of unlimited minimum income, we will most likely have to deny some people of it. Not everyone without a job can get it in this kind of situation. |
| Date | 06:20:39, January 05, 2011 CET | From | . | To | Debating the Welfare Payments Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The allowance paid to the unemployed here will be high enough to maintain them in dignity but not so high as to discourage work, since it falls below the minimum wage. We really need to take poverty seriously in this country. We must not allow the chasm between rich and poor to expand. Those on the lowest incomes must not be left behind. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 259 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 241 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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