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Bill: Agriculture (Subsidies) Repeal Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union 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: July 2518
Description[?]:
| An act to remove subsidies on agriculture. |
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: The government subsidises agriculture based on market demand for the crop being grown.
Proposed: The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:05:36, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Agriculture (Subsidies) Repeal Act |
| Message | We are throwing money toward distorting the market. If a farmer cannot make a living by growing a certain crop, they should change crop, or industry. By removing these unnecessary subsidies, we will be making our farmers more internationally competitive, and will reduce the tax burden on all our citizens. |
| Date | 13:01:33, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Agriculture (Subsidies) Repeal Act |
| Message | We are going to oppose this. This has nothing to do with making a living at all. |
| Date | 18:55:29, January 16, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Agriculture (Subsidies) Repeal Act |
| Message | We prefer the current law. |
| Date | 23:33:12, January 16, 2008 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Agriculture (Subsidies) Repeal Act |
| Message | oppose I want to go back to strategic crop support, but can live with the current law |
| Date | 12:07:28, January 17, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Agriculture (Subsidies) Repeal Act |
| Message | A large issue in our nation is where to find money to fund tax cuts, and necessary budget expenditure, and yet we are perfectly happy to throw away money at unnecessary agricultural subsidies? There are some places where the free market is beneficial, and this is one of them. |
| Date | 23:55:02, January 17, 2008 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Agriculture (Subsidies) Repeal Act |
| Message | there is some role for gov support of farmers strategic crops and ecological crops are both good examples this has to debated in the larger context of whether foreign nations are dumping subsidized crops into our market however the game does not allow this to be considered |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 97 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 272 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 105 |
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