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Bill: Remove Agriculture Subsidies
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom 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: September 2088
Description[?]:
| Agricultural subsidies are not needed at all. Removal of subsidies allows competition and free trade to all. Prices will not be artificial and will instead be their true market value. The market will determine the price and the demand for certain products and this will save the government money and allow it to be used in more worthwhile areas, such as education, health care and defence. There is no need to subsidise this industry as their is always demand for food and subsidising it leads to over production and harms the environment. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Current: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Proposed: The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:02:04, July 30, 2005 CET | From |  RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Remove Agriculture Subsidies |
| Message | Against, they must be able to compete with imports, and a healthy agricultural sector is necessary to ensure our food supplies in case of an emergency. |
| Date | 14:52:30, July 31, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Remove Agriculture Subsidies |
| Message | Strongly in favour. We shouldnt bouy up unprofitable industries with unfair government subsidies only to have our farms flood third world markets with dumped produce. |
| Date | 14:52:41, July 31, 2005 CET | From | Grand Republican Party | To | Debating the Remove Agriculture Subsidies |
| Message | Against |
| Date | 15:05:44, July 31, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Remove Agriculture Subsidies |
| Message | Why? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 190 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 347 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 62 |
| Random fact: Cultural Protocols should generally be reflective of RP conducted within the nation and should not significantly alter or modify the ethnic, religious or linguistic composition without considerable and reasonable role-play or other justification. |
| Random quote: "Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food." - Nicolas Chamfort |