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Bill: Give the Sufferers a share
Details
Submitted by[?]: Luthori Democratic 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: March 2184
Description[?]:
| The people are not politicians but they suffer the consequences |
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 reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
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 | 21:01:15, February 09, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Give the Sufferers a share |
| Message | You want us to pay Treasury cash to soap dodging parasitic layabouts? That money comes out of the pockets of hardworking taxpayers' and consumers who drive the Empire's economy! |
| Date | 21:01:23, February 09, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Give the Sufferers a share |
| Message | You want us to pay Treasury cash to soap dodging parasitic layabouts? That money comes out of the pockets of hardworking taxpayers' and consumers who drive the Empire's economy! |
| Date | 22:28:05, February 09, 2006 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Give the Sufferers a share |
| Message | This is not Rastafarianism, this is pure and simple Communism and we will have none of it. |
| Date | 02:57:54, February 10, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Give the Sufferers a share |
| Message | This ain't communism, it is socialism, and what's more, it is what jesus would want. If the Christian parties vote against this, Jesus will cry. |
| Date | 05:44:12, February 10, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Democratic Party | To | Debating the Give the Sufferers a share |
| Message | communism, socialism it's all politrix, this is just taking a wee bit of whats ours |
| Date | 08:54:21, February 10, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Give the Sufferers a share |
| Message | It's not yours -- it belongs to the hard working taxpayers and consumers! |
| Date | 17:53:41, February 10, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Democratic Party | To | Debating the Give the Sufferers a share |
| Message | Yes, the working people who create this nations wealth and want a fairer share of it |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 210 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 341 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 94 |
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| Random quote: "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." - Napoleon Bonaparte |