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Bill: Minimum Wage Amendment II
Details
Submitted by[?]: Center-Right Coalition
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: January 2294
Description[?]:
| A bill to abolish the Living Wage. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 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 | 10:28:53, October 01, 2006 CET | From | National Socialist Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment II |
| Message | I agree, and may I also add that I am not a nazi in real life. I prefer to play particracy with either one of the ideological extremes - otherwise it's boring for me. |
| Date | 14:48:15, October 01, 2006 CET | From | Aldegar Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment II |
| Message | I do not agree, as the poor need some support in order to keep a passable standard of living, but my opinion doesn't really matter all that much right now. |
| Date | 18:20:53, October 01, 2006 CET | From | Center-Right Coalition | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment II |
| Message | This isn't a Communist country where the wages are set by the state as you would have it be, this legislation is about creating new jobs for millions of workers. |
| Date | 20:18:30, October 01, 2006 CET | From | Aldegar Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment II |
| Message | Just for the record, we're social democrats, not communists. Look up social democracy in any encyclopedia. Also, how would a piece of legislaion that would lower the minimum wage even touch the amount of jobs there are? If nobody wants to hire people, then nobody will get hired; it's not really up to the minimum wage. Actually, having a higher minimum wage would help workers a lot more, because it would ensure that they have enough money to get by, as opposed to just enough to stay out of poverty. |
| Date | 06:15:12, October 03, 2006 CET | From | Center-Right Coalition | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment II |
| Message | Or just increase the rate of inflation, further boosting the cost of living and continually depressing the standard of living. |
| Date | 21:32:35, October 04, 2006 CET | From | Aldegar Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Amendment II |
| Message | Or just make sure the poor have at least some money, as opposed to making them work longer hours and occasionaly have multiple jobs just to earn the same amount of money that they would be getting under the existing law, therefore continually depressing the poor themselves, let alone the standard of living. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 196 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 179 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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