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Bill: Welfare Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jakania Republican 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: September 2198
Description[?]:
| The Education and the Health and Social Services spending is tied at first for national priority. The unregualated amount of time a person can recieve unemployment is a problem. These people may live off the state and not find a job. They could use the money for illegal purposes and can add to the national unemployment. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Current: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Proposed: 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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:16:41, March 08, 2006 CET | From | Jakania Republican Party | To | Debating the Welfare Bill |
| Message | People must find a job to be successful and not depend on the state for their money forever. |
| Date | 08:32:38, March 10, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian-Socialist Coalition | To | Debating the Welfare Bill |
| Message | Lowering and capping welfare and unemployment benefits... Ick. If we've got an economic downturn and not enough jobs to go around, people are going to suffer. Of course we don't expect people to stay on welfare forever. But this bill will measurably lower our citizens' quality of life. |
| Date | 22:33:25, March 10, 2006 CET | From | Jakania Republican Party | To | Debating the Welfare Bill |
| Message | No, it will only lower the quality of life of some of our citizens. The certain period of time can be adjusted to meet the needs of the unemployed. This bill is to stop some people from using the government's money to supply their evil desires. |
| Date | 22:34:26, March 10, 2006 CET | From | Jakania Republican Party | To | Debating the Welfare Bill |
| Message | Oh this is not lower the benefits, its limiting the time the cash keeps flowing to them. |
| Date | 10:53:05, March 12, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian-Socialist Coalition | To | Debating the Welfare Bill |
| Message | "Basic subsistence" is indeed lower than "Reasonable, though not high". Ah well. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 90 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 59 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy has 464 player slots. |
| Random quote: "In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from." - Peter Drucker |