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Bill: Close the Poverty Gap Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Democratic Party of Darnussia
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 2171
Description[?]:
| The current system keeps the poor, poor, and condemns families to suffer without effeicent amounts of money coming into the family! It is time for a reasonable government, to give reasonable benifits to people, and not be tight fisted and nasty, like the nasty parties of CA, LBSC and CED |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Current: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
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 | 04:37:34, January 13, 2006 CET | From | Darnussian Strength Initiative | To | Debating the Close the Poverty Gap Act |
| Message | You want to help poor people, donate to charity. Don't send me to jail because I don't want to. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 168 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 293 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 89 |
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