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Bill: Universal Basic Income Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Kalistani Worker’s Front
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: August 4523
Description[?]:
| An effort to restore to being the Universal Basic Income (UBI) that was abolished recently. |
Proposals
Article 1
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:43:40, January 28, 2019 CET | From | National Liberal Party (NLP) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | We'd only support Article 3. Article 1 is up for discussion, but Article 2 is an unconditional dealbreaker. |
| Date | 05:49:10, January 28, 2019 CET | From | United Kalistani Worker’s Front | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | Would the NLP support a provision making it legal to fire strikers with government approval? We’re willing to bend, but the protection of Strikers is a must. |
| Date | 05:49:43, January 28, 2019 CET | From | United Kalistani Worker’s Front | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | We will be willing to remove article one and amend article two if that is what’s required. |
| Date | 05:54:11, January 28, 2019 CET | From | National Liberal Party (NLP) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | Like we said, Article 2 must be removed entirely before we can even consider voting affirmatively for this bill. |
| Date | 05:55:28, January 28, 2019 CET | From | United Kalistani Worker’s Front | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | Very well. The restoration of the UBI is more important at the moment. |
| Date | 06:17:22, January 28, 2019 CET | From | National Liberal Party (NLP) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | Like we said, Article 2 must be removed entirely before we can even consider voting affirmatively for this bill. |
| Date | 06:24:55, January 28, 2019 CET | From | United Kalistani Worker’s Front | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | It has been. |
| Date | 06:26:43, January 28, 2019 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | We will support this bill |
| Date | 17:12:40, January 28, 2019 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | We'll support if the article regarding a salary cap is removed. |
| Date | 18:59:09, January 28, 2019 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | We will not support,the “Minimum Wage” lie does nothing but increase unemployment and leave more people poor,basically it is another terrible idea of the Left which says “Let’s just make everyone poor just to be equal” |
| Date | 19:46:30, January 28, 2019 CET | From | National Liberal Party (NLP) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | We'll support once this bill comes to a vote. |
| Date | 20:03:03, January 28, 2019 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | We will support this. And quite frankly, we think that the Liberal economic model of sink or swim is designed to end poverty by starving all poor people to death. We would appreciate it if the monsterous economic attitudes of the LDP were kept to themselves and stop being forced upon the Kalistani population. We encourage them to stick to what they are good at, which is defending civil liberties. |
| Date | 21:35:59, January 28, 2019 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | The Liberal Economy is the very foundation of civil liberties. You cant have freedom when you’re forced to give your money to others. |
| Date | 01:10:20, January 29, 2019 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | Economics are not the foundation of political liberty. You have it entirely backward: We were freer when people were free from need, and could pursue their wants without worrying about starving to death. Now our workers are slaves in all but the name to their employers, and even more insidious, because of Liberal economic policies, to hunger. Because they need to eat, they must sell themselves to the person who will employ them, whose own interest lies in paying them as little as possible and getting them to work for as long as possible. The abolition of the minimum wage, the last too the workers had on their side has made workers at Liberal owned factories virtual slaves. But I suppose this is the way the LDP wants it: I guess people are finally free to starve. So congratulations. You gave people the freedom that nobody wanted. Oh, and I suppose your policies will go to make the wealthy much much more so. Except, when nobody can afford to buy the stuff made at the companies that those wealthy people have invested in, I suppose they too will sink down, and will be forced to join the working poor that they previously stepped on to climb up. Its like the Liberals are working to make Metz' predictions come true. And I do not imagine that it will be long before the workers have had enough and go find the wealthy to go get back their ill gotten gains. Because: Hungry people don't stay hungry for long. |
| Date | 08:59:01, January 29, 2019 CET | From | United Kalistani Worker’s Front | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | To the LDP- Either you help provide the people with what they need to survive, or you lose the right to complain about them taking it. The quality of a Society can be measured in how they treat their worst-off citizens. Under your policies, Kalistan is failing that test. |
| Date | 09:55:36, January 29, 2019 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | And what of the people from which you take their hard-earned mony to give to the “poor”? What of the people which you force to fund other’s needs ? This is a clear violation of monetary freedom. |
| Date | 13:26:23, January 29, 2019 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | We're in no way a socialist party, but we do favour the workers over the employers, and we'd just like to point out that the LDP finally admitted to caring more about the rich retaining their money than average Kalistanis surviving. |
| Date | 16:22:28, January 29, 2019 CET | From | United Kalistani Worker’s Front | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | I mean, we all knew it. It was just a matter of them outright saying it. |
| Date | 16:31:09, January 29, 2019 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Universal Basic Income Act |
| Message | The choice is always between social welfare and social revolution. It is clear which side the Conservatives choose, and we happen to agree with them. Feeding people is always less expensive than killing them in the long run, so, we applaud the efforts of social Democrat’s, socialists and Nationalists to work together on this very important matter. It can only strengthen the Republic for the poor to know that the government has not sold them entirely to capital. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 143 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 132 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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