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Bill: Reform Act of 4458
Details
Submitted by[?]: Confederal Freedom 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: June 4459
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of hunting.
Old value:: Hunting and fishing activities are restricted to designated areas and periods.
Current: Hunting and fishing activities are restricted to designated areas and periods.
Proposed: The matters of hunting and fishing are handled by local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change International trade (this is a default in the absense of a specific free trade agreement or specific trade embargo)
Old value:: The nation allows for imports, but imposes tariffs and quotas in certain areas.
Current: The nation allows for imports, but imposes protectionist tariffs and quotas on all imports.
Proposed: The nation allows for imports, but imposes protectionist tariffs and quotas on all imports.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government-sponsored recycling programs.
Old value:: The government funds recycling facilities for public use.
Current: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Proposed: Local governments decide about this.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Policy on monopolies (this general law is superceded by other laws relating to specific parts of the economy).
Old value:: Monopolies are forbidden, and are actively broken up.
Current: Monopolies are actively enforced in all sectors of the economy.
Proposed: There is no policy on monopolies, they are unregulated.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: There is a National Curriculum which all schools are obliged to follow.
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all schools are obliged to follow.
Proposed: There is no National Curriculum; curriculum policies for all schools are determined on a local level by local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:51:25, September 23, 2018 CET | From | United Party | To | Debating the Reform Act of 4458 |
| Message | “The NCP and Liberty Parties want to end the minimum wage?!?! That would put employees at risk, employers would no longer be forced to actually pay their employees enough to survive. I am disgusted that these parties are willing to help their business owning allies over the hard working citizens of Beluzia!” Roberto Schneider IV United Party Congressional Leader |
| Date | 13:51:42, September 23, 2018 CET | From | United Party | To | Debating the Reform Act of 4458 |
| Message | At the expense of* |
| Date | 17:07:58, September 23, 2018 CET | From | Confederal Freedom Party | To | Debating the Reform Act of 4458 |
| Message | Minimum wage hurts business, which in the long run hurts their employees. If our minimum wage is higher than that of a neighboring country, why would the business not outsource jobs to that country? When I talk about wanting to remove the minimum wage, it is because I want to keeps jobs here, not because I don’t care about the poorest beluzians. We must stay competitive in international markets, to keep jobs here in Beluzia, sometimes that may mean getting rid of, or reducing the minimum wage and scaling back regulations. You communists may not like the means to get there, but it provides more stability in the long run if we stay competitive in international markets, instead of just throwing money at things to create fake growth. |
| Date | 17:32:59, September 23, 2018 CET | From | United Party | To | Debating the Reform Act of 4458 |
| Message | “Lowering the minimum wage and eliminating it do two entirely different things, one makes it so businesses don’t have has high a minimum wage, the other makes it so businesses can pay you a dollar for a weeks work. It doesn’t help employees it puts their salaries at risk don’t lie to the Beluzian people and claim its communism to want to make sure citizens are paid enough to live.” |
| Date | 17:37:54, September 23, 2018 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Reform Act of 4458 |
| Message | Caryl Ayers (L-Liberty) Mr Speaker...the very idea that companies should to be "forced" to pay employees some arbitrary figure or else the workers won't "survive" speaks volumes about the far-left notion that anyone who operates a business is automatically a "rich", greedy, stingy, grasping person who is just desperate to pay people bel 0.01 an hour in slave like workhouse conditions. It explains why they cling so bitterly to the idea that only government can provide salvation from employment ills by insisting for example that; "all businesses to be run by Democratic Workers' Councils." We urge the United Party to show more confidence in our business sector and open up the markets and let companies run their businesses as they see fit. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 146 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 334 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 20 |
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