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Bill: Luthori Social Safety Net Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Shuggoth Progressive 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 2193
Description[?]:
| A series of proposals to provide a safety net for Luthori's citizens. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state guarantees child benefit to families classified as low-income or poor.
Current: Child benefit policies are left to local governments.
Proposed: The state guarantees child benefit to all families.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining shelters.
Current: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Proposed: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Current: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Proposed: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Current: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Article 6
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 7
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Current: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Proposed: The state operates a compulsory, public pension system.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Current: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Proposed: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:13:24, February 28, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Luthori Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | SPP really is ruining this for the rest of us. We should boycott them somehow. |
| Date | 15:48:30, February 28, 2006 CET | From | Shuggoth Progressive Party | To | Debating the Luthori Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | How is the SPP ruining anything for you? We propose legislation and vote on it. If more parties proposed legislation, they would have more visibility, more seats in the legislature, and could shape the law better. Feel free to propose whatever legislation you want! |
| Date | 17:13:56, February 28, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Luthori Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | It's the way you propose bills to deliberately manipulate the game mechanics that ruins it. Hopefully the remake will punish inconsistency in the way we were told this version was supposed to. |
| Date | 00:44:02, March 01, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Luthori Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | The SPP were opposed to this not that long ago. What is going on? |
| Date | 09:51:20, March 01, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Luthori Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | SPP are playing silly buggers again - and will probably be rewarded handsomely at the next election for it, again! Bring on the new version!!! We will propose amendments to articles III and IV once this has passed. |
| Date | 21:04:13, March 01, 2006 CET | From | Shuggoth Progressive Party | To | Debating the Luthori Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | OOC : For the record, I only want to shape my own platform. If every party would propose legislation, I could just vote on your legislation. Unfortunately, it's only me and the Unionists who are proposing anything, and since the laws have mostly been changed to what the SPP wants, the only way I can shape my platform is to propose something and then vote against it. (I am RPing this as another "wing" of my party insisting on the legislation to stay in our coalition, but it would be easier to just give your legislation an up or down vote hehe) |
| Date | 13:07:49, March 02, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Luthori Social Safety Net Act |
| Message | Proposing "mixed up" bills which cause problems for other parties is frowned upon. The debate phase should be used to separate articles so that parties can votr for the ones they like and against the ones they don't. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 301 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 372 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 77 |
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