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Bill: Minimum Wage
Details
Submitted by[?]: Darnussian Strength Initiative
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: October 2151
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:44:18, December 04, 2005 CET | From | Darnussian Strength Initiative | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | If the minimum wage is set above the subsistence level, then those who would have received employment at the subsistence level will remain unemployed. *waits for everyone to marvel at my insanity* |
| Date | 20:00:33, December 04, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | eh? |
| Date | 00:31:07, December 05, 2005 CET | From | Darnussian Strength Initiative | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | It seems that everytime I have proposed a bill that wasn't socialist I have been referred to as "insane". |
| Date | 15:26:44, December 05, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | I know, great fun isn't it? Welcome to my world. |
| Date | 16:09:42, December 05, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | Typical yank, misusing of the word socialist |
| Date | 18:40:10, December 05, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | not just yanks... |
| Date | 20:55:19, December 05, 2005 CET | From | Vuloch Ca Korzia | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | Given the high unemployment in Kozaria, I cannot vote in favour. |
| Date | 23:39:29, December 05, 2005 CET | From | Darnussian Strength Initiative | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | This will lower unemployment by allowing businesses to hire more workers. |
| Date | 19:31:38, December 06, 2005 CET | From | Vuloch Ca Korzia | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | This has nothing to do with business, this is the state that is paying benefits. |
| Date | 15:47:41, December 07, 2005 CET | From | Darnussian Strength Initiative | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | That is welfare, not the minimum wage. This is a regulation setting the lowest wage an employer can legally pay. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 68 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 96 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 37 |
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| Random quote: "Political correctness is just tyranny with manners." - Charlton Heston |