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Bill: National Plan for Agriculture Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamonese Communist 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: December 2618
Description[?]:
| Agriculture is the lifeblood of our nation, and determines our ability to survive. It should come under national control so as to achieve maxium output and maximum efficiency. Telamon should be self-sufficient when it comes to feeding itself. Albert Brocklehurst (General Secretary of the Telamonese Communist Party) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Current: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Proposed: All agricultural operations are state-owned and operated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:00:31, August 08, 2008 CET | From | Telamon Minarchist Party | To | Debating the National Plan for Agriculture Act |
| Message | Telamon is self-sufficient when it comes to food; on the other hand every time agriculture comes under complete state control people end up starving. Since I like to eat I think I'll vote against this bill and starvation. Leonard Nozick Jr. Party Leader Telamon Minarchist Party |
| Date | 19:36:35, August 08, 2008 CET | From | Radical Party | To | Debating the National Plan for Agriculture Act |
| Message | State-owned agriculture has proven to critically damage both competition and the desire to perform. It breeds lazyness and ultimately leads to starvation. We vote against. Emilia Ferlinghetti Food and Agriculture Minister |
| Date | 00:55:43, August 09, 2008 CET | From | Telamonese Communist Party | To | Debating the National Plan for Agriculture Act |
| Message | We do not need lectures on laziness from bourgeois liberal capitalists. Nor do we need any lessons from them on starvation, since they have allowed untold millions to starve in recent centuries. Albert Brocklehurst (General Secretary of the Telamonese Communist Party) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 216 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 285 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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