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Bill: Protect Malivian Wages
Details
Submitted by[?]: Leviathan 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: August 2333
Description[?]:
| No one who works 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, should ever live in poverty. No exceptions. |
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 that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
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 | 21:56:13, December 21, 2006 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Protect Malivian Wages |
| Message | We feel that supporting a family of four is an unreasonably high min wage. We would like it to be able to support two people, if working full time at min wage. WE should instead work toward improving our citizens' job skills to get them to move out of min wage jobs. This coupled with strong union support in all industries should help those who are below poverty level. |
| Date | 11:48:16, December 22, 2006 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Protect Malivian Wages |
| Message | One of the unfortunate facts of the private market economy the PP has helped steer us into is that minimum wages are structured into any economic system. First and foremost, there are a certain number of menial jobs that an economy cannot function without. We can move as many workers out of those jobs as we like, but somone is going to have to fill them. We must also consider what happens when the market is allowed to set wages. The buying power of wages is relative to the cost of living in a country, which is a function of inflation, which is partly a function of how quickly wages rise. As the buying power of workers increases, so to does both the cost labor adds to the price of goods and the ability of workers to pay those increased prices. Thus, we must set the minimum wage at a level that ensures a family with two full time workers, one at work and one at home, does not live in poverty. It is an unacceptable tax on families to force both parents to work just to keep above water. |
| Date | 16:04:48, December 22, 2006 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Protect Malivian Wages |
| Message | We will have our economic advisor go through some numbers before we vote on this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 46 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 73 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 81 |
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