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Bill: Agricultural Subsidies Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Luthori Christian Women's Association
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: March 2417
Description[?]:
| Agricultural subsidies should be re-focussed towards achieving environmental objectives. We should stop ruining our countrysides with over-production. Belinda Braithwaite (Leader of the LCWA) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises agriculture based on market demand for the crop being grown.
Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:12:14, June 20, 2007 CET | From | Christian People's Party (IA) | To | Debating the Agricultural Subsidies Act |
| Message | finances over the environment |
| Date | 18:05:32, June 20, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Vodka and Pimm's Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Subsidies Act |
| Message | A waste of government money. |
| Date | 19:46:08, June 20, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Agricultural Subsidies Act |
| Message | If there is market demand for crops then surely they are profitable and as such there is no need for subsidies? On the other hand if organic and GM-free foods cost twice as much as their chemical-ridden and unholy GM counterparts then that's not really offering a real choice to the average housewife doing her grocery shopping, is it? |
| Date | 21:19:09, June 20, 2007 CET | From | Secular Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Subsidies Act |
| Message | The market should decide what crops are grown, not inefficent government subsidies. Therefore, we must decline support of this bill. |
| Date | 05:53:57, June 21, 2007 CET | From | Teleurstelling Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Subsidies Act |
| Message | This needs to be consdiered for the long term. Green is efficient and economic in the long term. Green Practices aid in lengthening the life of soil. GM Crops are often excluded form importation by many nations and pesticides not meeting specific standards or overly used can have amazing effects on the entire ecosystem which will then need to fixed at alter time. Scriptural man holds Dominion of the Earth, we are stewards, and as stewards we are obligated to do our best with it. Why worry about reaping rewards over a few years we we stand now posed to set in motion events that will allow Luthori to reap rewards for centuries. I encourage the civic minded members ofhte Redneck Party who clearly stand allied with the common man to rethink this as it stands to benefit our children and their children and their children and so on and so forth. |
| Date | 17:27:22, June 21, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Vodka and Pimm's Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Subsidies Act |
| Message | ooc: There's no Earth, Falls Party, we are on Terra. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 47 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 53 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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