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Bill: Pensions and Savings Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Solentian Socialist Party
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: September 2150
Description[?]:
| At the present time, "the state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own." This discriminates against the poor and working class, whose lower incomes means they are unable to save money, and is wholly unethical. The SSP believes the government should introduce "a compulsory, public pension system" to ensure the disadvantaged are looked after in their elder years, and that nobody must ever worry about going without life's essentials in their old age. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own.
Current: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Proposed: The state operates a compulsory, public pension system.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:10:54, December 02, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Pensions and Savings Act |
| Message | We were thoriughly shocked upon discovering this situation, and ask our fellow parliamentarians to recognise the gross injustice that is our current pensions system. |
| Date | 17:29:58, December 02, 2005 CET | From | United Centrists | To | Debating the Pensions and Savings Act |
| Message | We are just as surprised to learn of this (and fearful that we may have helped get the policy passed sometime in the past). We fully support the SSP's proposal. |
| Date | 03:25:53, December 03, 2005 CET | From | Communist Fascist And Anarchial Party | To | Debating the Pensions and Savings Act |
| Message | we are too, shocked at this, and strongly support this proposal |
| Date | 03:33:46, December 03, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Global Justice Party | To | Debating the Pensions and Savings Act |
| Message | we will definitely support this bill |
| Date | 10:31:25, December 03, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Pensions and Savings Act |
| Message | On to the vote then. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 384 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 295 |
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