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Bill: Farm Reorganization
Details
Submitted by[?]: Protectorate Party
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: March 2090
Description[?]:
| In an effort to produce a farm policy we can all agree upon we recommend the following: Land used for farming is owned by those working on the farm, farms currently larger then one family can operate are divided into small enough parcels and distributed among those currently working it. If the landowners wish to sell the land for non-farming purposes they must abide by local regulations to insure continued level of production. The formation of larger farms can be achieved by adjacent farms working together. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: All agricultural operations are state-owned and operated.
Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Farm size is not regulated.
Current: Farm size is not regulated.
Proposed: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:26:31, July 31, 2005 CET | From | Social Republican Party | To | Debating the Farm Reorganization |
| Message | Okay |
| Date | 19:04:15, August 02, 2005 CET | From | Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Party | To | Debating the Farm Reorganization |
| Message | whatever |
| Date | 00:25:35, August 03, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Farm Reorganization |
| Message | As discussed in private, this bill contradicts itself. The PP has proposed a national agricultural policy, and yet is attempting to allow local governments to make their own policy. Given this contradiction, and the vagueness of what a 'familiy' is or how this is applied for determining the size of a farm, we cannot support this. While we would support the breaking up of large farms, this bill doesn't provide us with a clear policy on how and when these farms would be broken up. Given that the PP did not resolve these issues after we raised these concerns with them, we cannot support this policy. |
| Date | 15:58:06, August 03, 2005 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Farm Reorganization |
| Message | A family is a single household, the amount of land they can farm will change according to the technology used, thus should not be set by the bill rather determined by policy. Local governments craft their own subsidy program, not total farm policy. This bill limits the land a single farmer can own, and eliminates mandatory collectivization, yet still encourages farms to work together. It also prevents large companies from wiping out the smaller farmer. |
| Date | 23:18:28, August 03, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Farm Reorganization |
| Message | That still does not answer the obvious question of farm laborers; does this bill make it illegal for farmers to hire people outside their family? And a single household is hardly the kind of clear guideline we should expect from good legislation; families can be anywhere from two to eight people, and thus the size of farms will vary wildly, and again, is hardly the kind of clear guideline we should expect from legislation. The use of 'the family' as a measurement of farm size is not only anachronistic, but to unclear to be useful to anyone. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 42 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 38 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 2 |
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