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Bill: Crop subsidies
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Territorial 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: May 2050
Description[?]:
| Subsidies based on demand are an excellent way to engineer the yield of crops to fit our needs. Without these, shortages and excesses are commonplace and these can cause many problems. The farms are still kept private and so remain competitively efficient, but efficient in growing what is needed. |
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: The government subsidises agriculture based on market demand for the crop being grown.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:59:31, May 10, 2005 CET | From | To | Debating the Crop subsidies |
| Message | The previous situation as well as this proposition do not change a single thing. Food is not something to market. It is a basic necessity and should not be subjected to capitalist ways of thinking. |
| Date | 12:52:52, May 10, 2005 CET | From |  Maroon Party | To | Debating the Crop subsidies |
| Message | If there is market demand for a crop being grown, then the farmers will sell a lot of it and there will be no need for a subsidy. This bill, in other words, is a pointless. |
| Date | 18:39:27, May 10, 2005 CET | From | United Territorial Party | To | Debating the Crop subsidies |
| Message | Unless there is more demand for it than has been grown due to farmers having no incentive to do so. Then it would not be, as you say, a pointless. |
| Date | 03:59:26, May 11, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Crop subsidies |
| Message | If there is demand, then prices will rise. Seeing the higher prices, profit-seeking farmers will produce more of that crop. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 24 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 71 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: It is forbidden to impersonate a player or Moderator. |
| Random quote: "The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has." - Confucius |