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Bill: Salary Cap Enforcement Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kalistani Workers 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: September 4363
Description[?]:
| Recognizing that under current law there doesn't exist a salary cap within Kalistan, and seeing as a salary cap would help make wages more fair and cut down on income inequality, this bill would have the national government impose a fair salary cap on all workers preventing CEO's and the like from getting paid unfairly compared to their workers. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on a salary cap.
Old value:: The government has no stance on a salary cap.
Current: The government enforces a salary cap.
Proposed: The government enforces a salary cap.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:04:00, March 14, 2018 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Salary Cap Enforcement Act |
| Message | We are firmly against. |
| Date | 16:19:37, March 14, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Party of the URK (LURK) | To | Debating the Salary Cap Enforcement Act |
| Message | No way in hell will LURK support this. We vote negatively. |
| Date | 06:16:57, March 15, 2018 CET | From | Kalistani Workers Party | To | Debating the Salary Cap Enforcement Act |
| Message | We don't see why the LURK and NCP are so against this. Why do CEO'S and the like deserve such fat paychecks while the rest of Kalistan is barely scraping by? What exactly is the problem here? |
| Date | 06:47:41, March 15, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Party of the URK (LURK) | To | Debating the Salary Cap Enforcement Act |
| Message | The problem here is that this is an arbitrary and unnecessary distortion of the free market. It will heavily deincentivize competition, and lead to companies forming de facto enclaves and local monopolies; after all, there's nothing in it for the executives beyond a certain point. Furthermore, that money won't reach the incomes of workers, but will simply stay within companies and not be subject to income tax. Companies will naturally find ways for subject it to less tax through loopholes. This will lead to a lower federal budget, and will make it harder to provide welfare, which actually does help the lower classes. The KWP needs to learn a lesson; punishing the rich will not always enhance the lives of the poor. It will more often than not just lead to both groups having it worse off. |
| Date | 00:22:02, March 16, 2018 CET | From | Kalistani Workers Party | To | Debating the Salary Cap Enforcement Act |
| Message | What you're saying doesn't make any sense. This bill literally only applies to the slimmest portion of the current labor market. It has nothing to do with competitions, or monopolies, it's about making sure that the richest CEO's aren't getting overly paid for nothing. In reality, this bill doesn't do much at all, it's mostly symbolic. |
| Date | 08:14:05, March 16, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Party of the URK (LURK) | To | Debating the Salary Cap Enforcement Act |
| Message | If it's so symbolic, then what's the purpose in the first place? And if anything, this symbolizing the wrong thing; that the government wants to limit your success. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 750 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle |