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Bill: Anti Poverty
Details
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 2200
Description[?]:
| An attempt to decrease poverty. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state does not provide child benefit.
Current: The state guarantees child benefit to both low-income families and large families.
Proposed: The state guarantees child benefit to families classified as low-income or poor.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Current: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Proposed: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: The state contracts with private companies to provide public housing.
Current: All housing is private but rent is subsidised for low-income households.
Proposed: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:37:43, March 14, 2006 CET | From |  Party for the Promotion of Pandas | To | Debating the Anti Poverty |
| Message | Yessir, I must offer yu the warmest welcome and hope we can get along. Its been awhile since us socialists had some support, and Im telling yu now that i most definately will vote for this bill, but it may not get far. |
| Date | 05:18:25, March 15, 2006 CET | From | Roman Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Anti Poverty |
| Message | If you want anti-poverty, this is not the way to go. To get anti-poverty, one must scale back the government. When the government spends less, it doesn't need to take in as much taxes. People get more money in their pockets. Then cut back corporate taxes and get rid of income taxes. Corporations are able to hire more people, decreasing unemployment, and are able to pay them more money than they usually would. It is unrealistic to think they unemployment and poverty can be COMPLETELY eliminated this way, but it will take care of the vast majority of it. The way you propose, causes the need for the government to take more money from people and the corporations. Inflation occurs when the minimum wage continues to be raised, businesses have to fire people in order to make the minimum wage, the government hands out the Social Security benefits and unemployment, government must raise taxes for everyone in order to pay for it all and people just. get. poorer. Party of the people indeed... |
| Date | 06:49:53, March 15, 2006 CET | From | New Daio Party | To | Debating the Anti Poverty |
| Message | Absolutely not. The Ministry of Finance will not release funding for any of this. All this will do is make people poorer and dependant on the state. Perhaps a definition of 'poverty' is in order. The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts, Unproductiveness; infertility, the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. People that do not work are going to be poor. People that are fed, clothed, housed and at the mercy of the state are also going to be just as poor, because they're never going to strive for better. Also, to fund it, you're going to make other people poor, namely those on the verge of being poor to start with. The poorest full-time workers make 21k/yr. The average income is *47k/yr*. These bills with our nation in the economic state it is in is akin to slitting our throats. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 109 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 151 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 33 |
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