Home of the Brave: A 1960s Political RP (86th Congress)

[Louisianan]

Speaker Pro Tempore: "The Clerk will read the amended bill."

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Official Name: An Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which Establishes Congressional Power to Tax Capital Assets

Nickname: The Equity Taxation Amendment

Overview: Grants Congress the power to levy taxes on capital assets.

Sponsor: Senator Earl Boone (D-TN)
Co-Sponsors: Representative Richard Douglas (D-MN), Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY)

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Section 1: The Congress shall have power to levy a capital tax on the total value of an entity’s assets, if the entities income is over $3.000 per year', including personal assets of cash, bank deposits, real estate, insurance, pension plans, ownership of unincorporated business, and personal trusts, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States.

Section 2: Congress shall have the ability to tax capital assets of families if their Household earns more than $12.000 yearly, if the income is less than $12.000 yearly, the family is exempt from this taxation.

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This bill is then honorably presented to the United States Senate for consideration in order to allow for the taxation of capital assets to improve the United States Law and is backed by Senator Earl Boone.

United States House of Representatives
Representative Hubert Broussard
[Democratic - 3rd District of the State of Louisiana]

"I motion that we take this amended bill to a vote."

[Hopal]

Speaker Pro Tempore: "The Clerk will read the amended bill."

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Official Name: An Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which Establishes Congressional Power to Tax Capital Assets

Nickname: The Equity Taxation Amendment

Overview: Grants Congress the power to levy taxes on capital assets.

Sponsor: Senator Earl Boone (D-TN)
Co-Sponsors: Representative Richard Douglas (D-MN), Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY)

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Section 1: The Congress shall have power to levy a capital tax on the total value of an entity’s assets, if the entities income is over $3.000 per year', including personal assets of cash, bank deposits, real estate, insurance, pension plans, ownership of unincorporated business, and personal trusts, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States.

Section 2: Congress shall have the ability to tax capital assets of families if their Household earns more than $12.000 yearly, if the income is less than $12.000 yearly, the family is exempt from this taxation.

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This bill is then honorably presented to the United States Senate for consideration in order to allow for the taxation of capital assets to improve the United States Law and is backed by Senator Earl Boone.

United States House of Representatives
Representative Hubert Broussard
[Democratic - 3rd District of the State of Louisiana]

"I motion that we take this amended bill to a vote."

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Seconded"

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY) put the following bill into the docket:

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Official Name: Federal Relief Ensuring Entrepreneurialism Act

Nickname: FREE Act

Overview: This legislation is intended to, while decreasing bureaucracy, address the chronic poverty experienced by millions within these United States while encouraging and aiding in their self improvement within the context of free markets and free enterprise. It accomplishes this through the creation of a Federal Minimum Income Program and an Employment Education System. This legislation additionally seeks to relieve the burden of wage price controls on unemployed people unable to find work, small businesses who are driven into stagnation or closure and the lower income individual's who's consumption disproportionately consists of those products negatively effected by wage price controls, by simultaneously phasing out minimum wages as redundant.

Sponsor: Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY)
Co-Sponsors: Senator Joshua Sharp (D-MS)

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Section 1: The story of American prosperity has been the story of free individuals exchanging goods and services with each other through the mechanism of the market and freedom of enterprise. Yet, despite the free market organization of the economy, the great depression taught us that a failure of government to provide a means for the less fortunate to be insulated by fluctuations in the market can lead to immense suffering and freedom harming strife. The federal government therefore, must to provide the best possible means to ensure the maximum possible freedom of markets and enterprise, so individuals may reach the highest heights and lift the nation with them, while also protecting the citizenry from the lowest lows. In response to the great depression, a web of well meaning, though tangled programs were implemented to provide economic security. However, this tangled web has unnecessarily increased the size of the federal bureaucracy and has lead to an unnecessary degree of central planning by the government, something that has the tendency to pull nations toward tyranny. We must, therefore implement a remedy to this conundrum that is most compatible with American ideals of freedom of free markets and free enterprise.

Section 2: Establishes a Federal Minimum Income Program, paying all citizens either employed or in education for the purpose of future employment, with an income below the poverty line or sufficiently close to the poverty line, payments to bring them above it, with a gradual phase out intended to preserve the pursuance of higher incomes.

Section 3: Replaces and absorbs the funding of existing welfare programs into the expenditure of the Federal Minimum Income Program, while phasing out the federally mandated minimum wage gradually over the course of the first year of the implementation of the Federal Minimum Income Program.

(a) After the first year of implementation, state and local level minimum wages are prohibited.

(b) Converts existing federal unemployment insurance expenditures into funds for an Employment Education System tasked with providing education to unemployed individuals for the purpose of gainful employment.

Section 4: Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to add a new subsection to Section 7 as follows: The forty-hour workweek limit may be waived in a given state, pursuant to an act of the relevant state legislature, which must be passed on a yearly basis to remain in effect.

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This bill is then honorably presented to the Senate for consideration in order to change welfare and anti-poverty measures to improve the United States Law and is backed by Sofia Fraser.

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY): Motion to bring the FREE Act to the floor.

[Louisianan]

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY): Motion to bring the FREE Act to the floor.

President Pro Tempore: "The Chair is confused as to why the gentlelady from New York submitted the same bill twice, might she enlighten the chamber on that regard?"

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY): Motion to bring the FREE Act to the floor.

President Pro Tempore: "The Chair is confused as to why the gentlelady from New York submitted the same bill twice, might she enlighten the chamber on that regard?"

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY): It's been modified after negotiations.

[Louisianan]

President Pro Tempore: "The Chair is confused as to why the gentlelady from New York submitted the same bill twice, might she enlighten the chamber on that regard?"

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY): It's been modified after negotiations.

President Pro Tempore: "As I've heard no objection, I'll grant the motion, without a second. The chair invites the gentlelady to take the floor, and introduce the bill."

[Louisianan]

United States House of Representatives
Representative Hubert Broussard
[Democratic - 3rd District of the State of Louisiana]

"I motion that we take this amended bill to a vote."

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Seconded"

Speaker Pro Tempore: "Hearing no objections, the House will proceed to vote on the Amended Version of the Equity Tax Amendment. Register your votes."

[Louisianan]

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Seconded"

Speaker Pro Tempore: "Hearing no objections, the House will proceed to vote on the Amended Version of the Equity Tax Amendment. Register your votes."

United States House of Representatives
Representative Hubert Broussard
[Democratic - 3rd District of the State of Louisiana]

"Aye."

[Hopal]

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Seconded"

Speaker Pro Tempore: "Hearing no objections, the House will proceed to vote on the Amended Version of the Equity Tax Amendment. Register your votes."

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Aye"

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY): It's been modified after negotiations.

President Pro Tempore: "As I've heard no objection, I'll grant the motion, without a second. The chair invites the gentlelady to take the floor, and introduce the bill."

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY):

After negotiations, I am now able to present a revised version of the FREE Act, which carries bi-partisan endorsements of three presidential candidates, that stand on three different sides of the civil rights issue, a Senator, a Governor and a private citizen. It is not often that we can see the the advancement of proposals that have this degree of diversity in support across party lines, but this evidence of what is possible if we come together for the best interests of Americans.

The FREE Act ensures a guaranteed minimum income for all those willing to work to improve themselves, replacing our bureaucratic and restrictive system of wage controls and welfare with something far more efficient. It simultaneously equalizes the burden of anti-poverty measures between north and south, urban and rural, rich and poor, while allowing states to, if they so choose, more freedom in delegating control over workhours to negotiations between worker and employer, union and business.

[Chia Dal]

"Nay"

[Louisianan]

Speaker Pro Tempore: The Nay's have it, the Equity Tax Amendment dies. The House Floor is open to motions and debate.

[Louisianan]

President Pro Tempore: "As I've heard no objection, I'll grant the motion, without a second. The chair invites the gentlelady to take the floor, and introduce the bill."

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY):

After negotiations, I am now able to present a revised version of the FREE Act, which carries bi-partisan endorsements of three presidential candidates, that stand on three different sides of the civil rights issue, a Senator, a Governor and a private citizen. It is not often that we can see the the advancement of proposals that have this degree of diversity in support across party lines, but this evidence of what is possible if we come together for the best interests of Americans.

The FREE Act ensures a guaranteed minimum income for all those willing to work to improve themselves, replacing our bureaucratic and restrictive system of wage controls and welfare with something far more efficient. It simultaneously equalizes the burden of anti-poverty measures between north and south, urban and rural, rich and poor, while allowing states to, if they so choose, more freedom in delegating control over workhours to negotiations between worker and employer, union and business.

President Pro Tempore: "Seeing as there are no questions, the bill will be placed back into General Debate. The Senate Floor is open to motions and debate regarding the Free Act."

[Hopal]

Speaker Pro Tempore: The Nay's have it, the Equity Tax Amendment dies. The House Floor is open to motions and debate.

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Motion to take up the Workplace Investigations Act"

[Louisianan]

Speaker Pro Tempore: The Nay's have it, the Equity Tax Amendment dies. The House Floor is open to motions and debate.

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Motion to take up the Workplace Investigations Act"

United States House of Representatives
Representative Hubert Broussard
[Democratic - 3rd District of the State of Louisiana]

"Seconded."

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY):

After negotiations, I am now able to present a revised version of the FREE Act, which carries bi-partisan endorsements of three presidential candidates, that stand on three different sides of the civil rights issue, a Senator, a Governor and a private citizen. It is not often that we can see the the advancement of proposals that have this degree of diversity in support across party lines, but this evidence of what is possible if we come together for the best interests of Americans.

The FREE Act ensures a guaranteed minimum income for all those willing to work to improve themselves, replacing our bureaucratic and restrictive system of wage controls and welfare with something far more efficient. It simultaneously equalizes the burden of anti-poverty measures between north and south, urban and rural, rich and poor, while allowing states to, if they so choose, more freedom in delegating control over workhours to negotiations between worker and employer, union and business.

President Pro Tempore: "Seeing as there are no questions, the bill will be placed back into General Debate. The Senate Floor is open to motions and debate regarding the Free Act."

Senator Sofia Fraser (R-NY): Motion to move to a vote.

[Chia Dal]

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Motion to take up the Workplace Investigations Act"

United States House of Representatives
Representative Hubert Broussard
[Democratic - 3rd District of the State of Louisiana]

"Seconded."

"Objection"

[Louisianan]

United States House of Representatives
Representative Hubert Broussard
[Democratic - 3rd District of the State of Louisiana]

"Seconded."

"Objection"

Speaker Pro Tempore: "Hearing both a second and an objection to the motion, the House will now vote on whether or not we take up the Workplace Investigations Act."

[Louisianan]

"Objection"

Speaker Pro Tempore: "Hearing both a second and an objection to the motion, the House will now vote on whether or not we take up the Workplace Investigations Act."

United States House of Representatives
Representative Hubert Broussard
[Democratic - 3rd District of the State of Louisiana]


"Aye"

[Hopal]

"Objection"

Speaker Pro Tempore: "Hearing both a second and an objection to the motion, the House will now vote on whether or not we take up the Workplace Investigations Act."

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Aye"

After registering his vote Douglas sends a note to Williams

Why did you object to taking up the Workplace Investigations Act? I thought you co-sponsored it.

[Chia Dal]

Speaker Pro Tempore: "Hearing both a second and an objection to the motion, the House will now vote on whether or not we take up the Workplace Investigations Act."

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Aye"

After registering his vote Douglas sends a note to Williams

Why did you object to taking up the Workplace Investigations Act? I thought you co-sponsored it.

"Abstain"

Elizabeth writes back,

I'm using this as a test vote before we really vote on it.

[Louisianan]

Speaker Pro Tempore: "The Aye's have it. The Chair invites Mr. Douglas to the floor to introduce the bill."

[Louisianan]

President Pro Tempore: "Hearing no second to the motion to move to vote, the motion dies. The Senate is still in General Debate on the FREE Act."

[Hopal]

Speaker Pro Tempore: "The Aye's have it. The Chair invites Mr. Douglas to the floor to introduce the bill."

Representative Richard Douglas
[Democratic-Farmer-Labor - 4th District of Minnesota]
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today far too many Americans work with conditions that are unsafe and that endangers their own life. They are put in these working conditions without regard to their well being or will, they work there because they have to. As they often can't find any other job, and are forced into applying for these job, only so they can make some money for their families and themselves. But these jobs don't even pay awfully too much as the purpose of them is to exploit workers and to make as much profit as possible for greedy overlords, corporations, or employers. They leave these workers in danger and unaccounted for because they want to make profit, this is an intentionality of the system. I have seen it myself, my father worked in a coal mine in Northern Minnesota and I have seen the atrocious and inhuman working conditions that people are left in. So we must make it up for the American people, we must fight to unsure they can live and work in peace and safety, not having worry if they'll come from work."

"This bill attempts to do just that, laying out a framework for the Department of Labor to investigate unsafe workplaces. It gives the Department of Labor the authority to investigate any workplace that they may see as being possibly unsafe, as well as giving the workers the ability to report workplaces that are unsafe to the Department of Labor for investigation. It gives workers the ability to report their workplaces anonymously to give employers less of a chance of finding out and punishing workers for reporting unsafe workplaces, as well as empowering workers and making them feel secure when reporting. It also requires local municipalities to investigate workplaces every once in a while to make they are safe and meet safety requirements and labor standards. It also gives the Department of Labor more authority while conducting investigations so that they can make a more through and accurate investigations not allowing employers to hide unsafe practices. It also lays out possible consequences for employers for failing these investigations and being found of having unsafe practices and working conditions. All of this is meant to discourage workplaces from employing unsafe practices and working conditions creating safer workplaces and better conditions for workers."