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Bill: Private economy 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: December 3247
Description[?]:
| We want to priviaise certain areas which prooved to be better handeled by the private economy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on energy generation.
Old value:: Private and public power stations exist side-by-side.
Current: All power stations are publicly owned.
Proposed: Private power stations provide energy for the entire power grid.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Current: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:15:51, January 21, 2012 CET | From | Socialite Clique | To | Debating the Private economy act |
| Message | This is an abomination. Repealing the existence of a minimum wage? Really. It is obvious the captains of Industry at the K-L P have decided to just rape this country's people for all they are worth. I hope the other parties do not let this slide |
| Date | 19:28:34, January 21, 2012 CET | From | Democratic Reform Union | To | Debating the Private economy act |
| Message | We can't support the bill, especially article 2. |
| Date | 19:57:58, January 21, 2012 CET | From | Selucian Masters Party | To | Debating the Private economy act |
| Message | The minimum wage is an abomination. The presence of the minimum wage would only out-source Selucian work to nations who are willing to work for less. The minimum wage is also responsible for exuberant prices for all sorts of goods, even the necessities. It should have never been implemented in the first place. For their own moral satisfaction, liberals and socialists want to sacrifice the nation's economic competence and cost of living; it is about time they are stopped. Edmund Thaler |
| Date | 21:08:24, January 21, 2012 CET | From | Democratic Reform Union | To | Debating the Private economy act |
| Message | In most cases it is relatively difficult (or sometimes even impossible) to employ workers from other nations so Selucian employers are forced not to our-source work but to pay more for workers of Selucian nationality. We don't know what about socialists (and don't know is there any socialists in Selucia at all), but liberals value freedom of Selucian citizens (in this case freedom from poverty and near-slave labor) more than nation's interests. Goal of current minimum wage law is to ensure that every working citizen can adequately subsist, that he will not die from hunger or lack of medical care or (driven to despair by poverty) become a criminal etc. DRU would not support rise of minimum wage because this would really hamper economy growth. But complete abolishment of minumum wage is even worse. |
| Date | 00:30:22, January 22, 2012 CET | From | Selucian Liberal Party | To | Debating the Private economy act |
| Message | We cannot support this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 378 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 273 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 99 |
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