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Bill: For the Benefit of the Lowest
Details
Submitted by[?]: Deltarian Komitet Gosundarstvennoy Bezop
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: May 2307
Description[?]:
| This is a modest bill proposing to give aid to those who are in most need. In this way we strengthen the consumer power of the lowest class, and activate the economy to a higher degree. Enabling more revenues to go to Infrastructure and the like. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely private.
Current: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Proposed: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions are illegal.
Current: Only government-run trade unions exist and membership in them is voluntary.
Proposed: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Article 4
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 single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning phone services.
Old value:: There are no regulations on phone service.
Current: There are no regulations on phone service.
Proposed: The state subsidizes the phone service of low income families, and regulates the rates providers can charge for phone service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:13:21, October 30, 2006 CET | From | Hizb Al-Ba'ath | To | Debating the For the Benefit of the Lowest |
| Message | I'm agree with first three bills but am not like 4 and 5. |
| Date | 19:15:14, October 30, 2006 CET | From | Sect of the Green Moon | To | Debating the For the Benefit of the Lowest |
| Message | Can you wait a day before putting this to vote? |
| Date | 21:28:46, October 30, 2006 CET | From | Deltarian Komitet Gosundarstvennoy Bezop | To | Debating the For the Benefit of the Lowest |
| Message | If I put this to vote now, won't it show in our visibility and opinions thing just before your early elections call comes up? That way we might get more votes from our "supporters"? |
| Date | 22:48:44, October 30, 2006 CET | From | Sect of the Green Moon | To | Debating the For the Benefit of the Lowest |
| Message | Moderate Social Democrats, it seems you did your homework, or at least have experiance with Particracy. It doesn't matter anyway. You are gaining too much visiblity in the Markets area then other areas. I'd work on Civil Rights and Religion. |
| Date | 23:07:06, October 30, 2006 CET | From | Deltarian Komitet Gosundarstvennoy Bezop | To | Debating the For the Benefit of the Lowest |
| Message | I played in Ikradon about a year ago. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 310 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "We here thank those in Deltaria who put [Zardic spy Mona Rivet] to justice in the most humane way possible. With bullets." - Sergio Rodriguez, former Egelian journalist |