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Bill: Minimum Wage Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Independent Capitalist 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: July 2177
Description[?]:
| A national minimum wage is wrong. |
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 is no provision for a minimum wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:08:07, January 28, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Liberal Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Act |
| Message | We support a minimum wage. |
| Date | 19:19:30, January 28, 2006 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Act |
| Message | This bill is not against a minimum wage, merely a national one. This does not restrict local gov'ts from making their own minimum wages. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 225 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 260 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 115 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to ensure their "Bills under debate" section is kept in good order. Bills which are irrelevant or have become irrelevant should be deleted. Deletion can be requested for bills proposed by inactive parties on the Bill Clearout Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4363 |
| Random quote: "Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary." - Robert Louis Stevenson |