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Bill: Welfare Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian 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: December 4019
Description[?]:
| Mr. Speaker, To make welfare affordable again. Rep. Taylor Robinson, Deputy Leader LP |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government. However, the provision of this is not to exceed a certian period of time.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Current: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Proposed: There is a compulsory private pension system.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:42:56, April 26, 2016 CET | From | Green Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Why do the Libertarians wish to constantly take things away from people? The national income is more than affordable given the new budget and reduces the need for most other welfare benefits. What do the Libertarians hope to achieve by ending this piece of welfare after a certain period of time? This will only dump people into poverty rather than lifting people out of it. - Rep. Ross D. George (Ardinia), Green Party Leader |
| Date | 13:12:29, April 26, 2016 CET | From | The Worker's Union (WU) | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We simply don't understand why the Libertarian party is in support of a compulsory private pension system. The idea of anything being made compulsory is pretty clearly against the Libertarians ideals and it would horribly distort the market by making it compulsory. Andrew Phillips, Chairman of the Worker's Union, Representative of Kragusrov |
| Date | 14:52:20, April 26, 2016 CET | From | Green Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The Libertarian Party is totalitarian when it comes to the private sector. They want people to loyally serve the rich 1% who own and manipulate most of the economy. - Rep. Ross D. George (Ardinia), Green Party Leader |
| Date | 16:51:14, April 26, 2016 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We're not taking everything away. We're only taking things away from people where it doesn't belong. Welfare is for paying the workless with money of those who do work. But we also understand some should get some money to survive, so we're are willing to compromise there. For the pension system being compulsory, we favored a pension system where you should save up your own retirement, we saw this could harm the poor, so we decided to switch to a compulsory private system. Since government doesn't fix things, the private sector seemed the best opportunity. Rep. Trevor Roberts, Deputy Leader LP |
| Date | 23:13:13, April 26, 2016 CET | From | Great Rutania party | To | Debating the Welfare Reform Act |
| Message | Mr speaker, we will support this bill and hopefully others will aswell. Thank you Ed Bagel Representative, Ardinia. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 216 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 263 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 21 |
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