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Bill: Agricultural Sustainability Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Human Extinction Project
Status[?]: passed
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: January 2589
Description[?]:
We would like to build a sustainable, ecologically-efficient agriculture-based economy. Professor Horace Werckle (Director of the Human Extinction Project) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.
Current: The government subsidises agriculture based on market demand for the crop being grown.
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 | 01:34:04, June 08, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Sustainability Act |
Message | Subsidies are detrimental to the economy, and will in fact lead to a lesser agricultural output. |
Date | 13:04:55, June 08, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Agricultural Sustainability Act |
Message | Dunno where you get that.. Subsidies lead to overproduction |
Date | 14:28:37, June 08, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Sustainability Act |
Message | It leads to overproduction of whatever's subsidised, and underproduction of everything else. In between is the deadweight loss which is due to inequality in the market. By having subsidies, we distort the market away from its optimal production. |
Date | 17:54:42, June 08, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Agricultural Sustainability Act |
Message | So crops which are detrimental to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state will be underproduced.. that actually sounds fine by me. So what's your problem with that? |
Date | 02:56:59, June 09, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Sustainability Act |
Message | Because overall we'll have a shortage of food. Do you like eating? We here at the JUP are quite fond of eating, and would not enjoy a food shortage caused by myopic agricultural subsidies. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes |
Total Seats: 308 | ||||
no | Total Seats: 192 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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