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Bill: Public Servant Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Likatonian Independence Party
Status[?]: passed
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: January 4190
Description[?]:
| Members of parliament and our government are public servants. As such the should be paid well, but not excessively well. We should pay our members of parliament and government the average income of citizens in our country. This assures that they remain humble, work for the good of Likatonia and our people, and live lives similar to the majority of our countrymen. Only this way can we assure that our elected representatives understand us and truly represent We the People! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The salaries of members of parliament and/or government.
Old value:: Members of parliament and/or government are entitled to a comparatively large salary.
Current: Members of parliament and/or government are entitled to a comparatively average salary.
Proposed: Members of parliament and/or government are entitled to a comparatively average salary.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:13:35, April 01, 2017 CET | From | Social Liberal Party | To | Debating the Public Servant Act |
| Message | We prefer uncorrupted, talented politicians to humble politicians. |
| Date | 00:27:31, April 02, 2017 CET | From | Likatonian Independence Party | To | Debating the Public Servant Act |
| Message | OOC: check out mujica from Uruguay. He's the inspiration to this proposal. ;) There's no reason why only career politicians would be talented. |
| Date | 11:45:13, April 02, 2017 CET | From | Social Liberal Party | To | Debating the Public Servant Act |
| Message | When a talented person will decide what to do with their life, they -as would most of us- will choose the most profitable among their desirable options. If a successful lawyer/scientist/professor/engineer will earn more money at their office/lab/university/workshop than pursuing a political carreer, they will just stay at their workplace, and our nation will lose a great leader. |
| Date | 11:48:21, April 02, 2017 CET | From | Social Liberal Party | To | Debating the Public Servant Act |
| Message | Instead, our politics will become full of people that hasn't got any successful carreer anywhere else. Then, for politicians to be "more successful" than they can achieve by themselves, corruption will be in vogue. |
| Date | 12:37:03, April 02, 2017 CET | From | Likatonian Independence Party | To | Debating the Public Servant Act |
| Message | Or, those folks will say you know what? I want to serve my country. I want to be a member of parliament for 2-4 years. It would attract public servants as opposed to career politicians. Our Party does not want those people you mention, we don't want someone attracted to a position of government for a desire for personal profit or gain. We want selfless folks who want to serve because they believe in Likatonia and want to make it a better nation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 400 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 97 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Cabinet ministers who disagree seriously with the head of government would usually be expected to resign. Parties within the cabinet may attempt to manoeuvre to replace the head of government though, for example by proposing a new cabinet bill or voting for an early election. |
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