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Bill: Welfare Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia
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 4253
Description[?]:
| Members of Congress, I propose the following to allow those on low incomes or unemployed and those in work to receive the necessary benefits throughout their life and until they die. Flossie Hambleton Secretary of State for Finance |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: 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.
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.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state operates a compulsory, public pension system.
Current: There is a compulsory private pension system.
Proposed: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 600 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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