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Bill: Minimum Income Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Avanti Istalia!
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: November 3119
Description[?]:
| While we agree that society must help the weakest's struggle with basic needs, and that the State must operate a small wealth redistribution in order to ensure a minimum level of dignity to everyone, we feel we need to strike a line between solidarity and naïvety. Those who don't have any permanent physical or psychological shortcomings shouldn't be taken care of forever. Minimum income is to ensure every able-bodied man can seek employment without feeling anxious over the uncertainty of the future, and to support those who, due to a certain lack of requirements certainly not attributable to them, cannot sustain themselves with dignity. To the latter, their immanent shortcomings must always ensure them some sort of minimum income; to the former, whose contingent difficulties cannot justify a life annuity, we think it is reasonable to propose that such a measure should not exceed a period of nine months. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
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:
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| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 9 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 66 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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