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Bill: A Living Wage
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Workers Party
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: February 2156
Description[?]:
| There is no point in having a good economy if we have people earning poverty wages. Introduce A LIVING WAGE NOW! |
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 that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:42:57, December 13, 2005 CET | From |  Society of Sadists | To | Debating the A Living Wage |
| Message | Wages are set proportionately to skills and demand within the free market. Those who fight the market are doomed to failure. |
| Date | 17:03:23, December 14, 2005 CET | From | Communist Workers Party | To | Debating the A Living Wage |
| Message | The only thing doomed to failure is the market. It buy's labour from workers and tries to sell them back the produce of their labour at a higher price. Work out the paradox for yourself. If people are earning poverty wages, who is going to buy the produce? However the drive of the market is to the bottom. To make profits youmust produce goods and services cheaply and sell for a higher price. Wages are pushed down. Working conditions are pushed down. Quality of produce is pushed down as less workers are asked to produce more for less wages. Training suffers, so skills do to. This is the cause of economic crisis. It results in a never ending cycle of boom and bust. Under Capitalism there is no escape. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 28 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 64 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 1 |
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