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Bill: Introducing the emergency benefit
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sháhazi Péashro
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: April 3390
Description[?]:
| We have an ethical responsibility towards those of our compatriots in difficult times of life. We should not let society be ripped apart by allowing the creation of a lumpen proletariat. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:36:57, November 03, 2012 CET | From |  Left Libertarian Alliance of Cats | To | Debating the Introducing the emergency benefit |
| Message | We do not see how giving handouts does anything other than subsidize the birth of those lumpenprole dogs. -GALT FREYJA IV, Chairman of IAoC |
| Date | 13:39:01, November 03, 2012 CET | From | Sháhazi Péashro | To | Debating the Introducing the emergency benefit |
| Message | All cultural Barmenians have the possibility of becoming hard-working and decent citizens. If we let people starve, we are just creating a hotbed for violence and threats to societal stability. We are confident in the Sanctuaries ability to engage in population control. - Josephine Celticae, Minister of Health and Social Services |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 552 | |
| no | Total Seats: 198 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |