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Bill: Minimum Income Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Socialist 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: August 2181
Description[?]:
| The government should show compassion to those who cannot find work. |
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. However, the provision of this is not to exceed a certian period of time.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:40:04, February 03, 2006 CET | From |  Conservative Republican Federalists | To | Debating the Minimum Income Act |
| Message | No support. This would only inflate the government's budget, increase taxes and stifle people's motivation to contribute to society. It also would lower people's self-esteem knowing that they have had to become wards of the government. |
| Date | 03:51:04, February 04, 2006 CET | From | The Workers Party | To | Debating the Minimum Income Act |
| Message | No suport. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 249 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 275 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 36 |
| Random fact: It is forbidden to impersonate a player or Moderator. |
| Random quote: "Radical left-wing ideologies must be stamped out." - Franklin McCarthy, former Solentian politician |