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Bill: Agriculture Devolution Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Endralon Confederates 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: June 2467
Description[?]:
| Allowing the people more direct control over their community. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Current: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Proposed: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the use of pesticides.
Old value:: Farmers are required to list chemicals used on their crops.
Current: Farmers are required to list chemicals used on their crops.
Proposed: Local governments may choose to regulate pesticides certification programs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:38:40, October 06, 2007 CET | From |  Centralist Party | To | Debating the Agriculture Devolution Act |
| Message | Never. |
| Date | 18:58:14, October 06, 2007 CET | From | Fianna Fail Parliamentary Party | To | Debating the Agriculture Devolution Act |
| Message | No.... |
| Date | 19:05:33, October 06, 2007 CET | From | Endralon Confederates Party | To | Debating the Agriculture Devolution Act |
| Message | I just want to know what you have against letting people, at a more direct level decide for themselves what is best for them? How can you oppose something like that and still claim to champion the cause of freedom? |
| Date | 19:29:02, October 07, 2007 CET | From | Centralist Party | To | Debating the Agriculture Devolution Act |
| Message | We have a national government for a reason, and localists like you seem to want to forget that. |
| Date | 20:56:53, October 07, 2007 CET | From | Endralon Confederates Party | To | Debating the Agriculture Devolution Act |
| Message | "national government for a reason" What reason is that? To tyrannize? |
| Date | 21:17:25, October 07, 2007 CET | From | National Strength Party | To | Debating the Agriculture Devolution Act |
| Message | Stabalise... you damn fool. |
| Date | 22:47:40, October 07, 2007 CET | From | Endralon Confederates Party | To | Debating the Agriculture Devolution Act |
| Message | Allowing more freedom to the local governments and the people doesn't mean the nation loses stability. Obviously too much power taken from the central government would do this, but thats not what I'm advocating. I'm advocating letting local governments decide the things that effect them the most locally and drastically, it seems they would be a better judge of what needs to be done, then men who've never even set foot there. |
| Date | 01:05:47, October 08, 2007 CET | From | National Strength Party | To | Debating the Agriculture Devolution Act |
| Message | in which case why bother with a nation at all? we should just become a loose federation of states. Of course this is the beginning of a slippery slope.... |
| Date | 04:11:47, October 08, 2007 CET | From | Endralon Confederates Party | To | Debating the Agriculture Devolution Act |
| Message | I would favor a more loose federation of states over a very strong central government. But I don't necessarily advocate such an extreme move to the local side of things. There needs to be a balance, not just one or the other. Some things are best left local and some are needed to be national. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 156 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 344 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." - Aristotle |