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Bill: Active Welfare State's Act of 2215
Details
Submitted by[?]: Mouvement des Conservateurs
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: November 2216
Description[?]:
| Our shatter wants to provide every citizen that has been 'neglected' by the system, with a decent wage to get its the basic needs, not to get him/her or his/her family suffer under a possible misfortune. In order to maintain the attractiveness of a job, we want to ask the employees to keep the minimum wage at a considerable height, much higher than the minimum wage for an unemployed worker. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Article 2
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 that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:33:24, April 18, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Active Welfare State's Act of 2215 |
| Message | Impressed by your sudden turn-around, and glad to support this proposal, the Rev. Dawn French publicly embraced Chairwoman Lisa Falkland in the Rotunda Assembly. |
| Date | 03:38:13, April 18, 2006 CET | From |  Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Active Welfare State's Act of 2215 |
| Message | Its Mrs Falkland, mother of three children, so watch out with the embracing ;-) |
| Date | 06:48:26, April 18, 2006 CET | From | Front Canrillaise | To | Debating the Active Welfare State's Act of 2215 |
| Message | I assume Rev. Dawn French is a woman? So I see no problem with the embrace. ;-) |
| Date | 08:30:34, April 18, 2006 CET | From | Devout Ecologists Party | To | Debating the Active Welfare State's Act of 2215 |
| Message | The DEP will most likely support this article so that the poor are kept of the streets. |
| Date | 16:51:09, April 18, 2006 CET | From | Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Active Welfare State's Act of 2215 |
| Message | "I assume Rev. Dawn French is a woman? So I see no problem with the embrace. ;-)" hmmm, in this day and age....? |
| Date | 02:03:27, April 19, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Active Welfare State's Act of 2215 |
| Message | I'd like to remind you that the Rev. Dawn French is a lesbian, and is married to her wife, Gertrude French. They have ten children. |
| Date | 17:18:24, April 19, 2006 CET | From | Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Active Welfare State's Act of 2215 |
| Message | All women are lesbian these days... |
| Date | 18:17:49, April 19, 2006 CET | From | Front Canrillaise | To | Debating the Active Welfare State's Act of 2215 |
| Message | Rev. French's family situation is laughable. A disgrace to Rildanorian values! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 253 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 347 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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