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Bill: Agricultural Localization (2570)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Normand Pluralist 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: April 2571
Description[?]:
| Local governments are best able to take care of agricultural concerns, cutting down on government corruption and mismanagement. [[If even Cuba thinks that agricultural localization is a good idea, why in the world is Sekowo behind the times?]] |
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:: The government approves and regulates agricultural chemical use.
Current: Local governments may choose to regulate pesticides certification programs.
Proposed: Local governments may choose to regulate pesticides certification programs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:22:51, May 02, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Localization (2570) |
| Message | Article 1: CP opposes subsidizing normal crops because that should be based on demand. We like the current law because it is intended to protect the environment without hampering the agricultural sector. Article 2: CP opposes the agricultural chemical use article because we would not undertake any path that could lead to food shortage. The effects and costs of chemical usage are minimal to the effects and costs of a famine. |
| Date | 00:50:02, May 03, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Agricultural Localization (2570) |
| Message | We're against both. OOC: Technically Cuba uses communitarian farming council-groups, and it's a small enough nation that local is relative to how much you've traveled. |
| Date | 08:08:16, May 03, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Localization (2570) |
| Message | [[Well, Cuba's taken a drastic step in completely decentralizing their agricultural methods now. It's good that Ral has taken over.]] |
| Date | 08:43:14, May 03, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Agricultural Localization (2570) |
| Message | OOC: I'm not sure I'd call it localization in the true sense of the word, more just actually putting people who know what they are doing in charge, rather then just blindly redistrubiting land. |
| Date | 09:14:16, May 03, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Localization (2570) |
| Message | [[Oh, it's localization, there's no question about it. Where did you read about? The Times printed a pretty good article on the change Friday morning.]] |
| Date | 09:17:04, May 03, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Localization (2570) |
| Message | [[It's not the redistribution of land, however, but rather the redistribution of land governance, etc., away from a central government.]] |
| Date | 12:20:45, May 03, 2008 CET | From | Anti-Federalists of Free Sekowo | To | Debating the Agricultural Localization (2570) |
| Message | OOC: Besides, even if it was only headed that way in 2008, we're still over 500 years behind schedule |
| Date | 15:23:09, May 03, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Agricultural Localization (2570) |
| Message | OOC: I mean decentrilization, rather then localization, sorry 'bout that. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 73 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 432 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 95 |
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