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Bill: Strategic Crop Production Proposal
Details
Submitted by[?]: We Say So! 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: August 2158
Description[?]:
| In order to guarantee that there is always a minimum amount of basic food and that said food is produced and sold to the consumer at a price that is not overly extortionate, the Government will own and operate State farms to produce strategic crops (designated below). This produce will be sold at, or slightly above in order to assure return on investment, cost of production. All other produce, including that produced on State farms, can, and will, be produced by Private farmers on their own land and will have no outside interference, including the receipt of subsidies, in what food is produced as long as the standards of said production is of acceptable standards in both cleanliness of operations and safety of staff and livestock. Crops deemed strategic; 1. Wheat used for the production of a single type of brown wholemeal bread. 2. Dairy used to produce a full cream milk and hard cheese (both cheese and milk production will also allow competitive Private companies as well, should they wish to become involved. The aforementioned production will be limited to a single type of basic hard cheese and a standard full cream pasturised milk in order to guarantee the affordability of these basic foodstuffs to the general public). |
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 the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: Strategic crops are produced on State owned farms. All other produce is left to the Private sector.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:44:50, December 16, 2005 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Strategic Crop Production Proposal |
| Message | The HPP are concerned about the crops considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state. But leans toward supporting this proposal. |
| Date | 02:35:32, December 16, 2005 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Strategic Crop Production Proposal |
| Message | Aye, though we would like to see full nationalization of agriculture. |
| Date | 12:48:07, December 16, 2005 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Strategic Crop Production Proposal |
| Message | we agree with the CSP! |
| Date | 13:49:22, December 16, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Strategic Crop Production Proposal |
| Message | We would like to see a removal of subsidies. This bill screws up our voting aims: voting for makes us big government and regulatory; voting against makes us environmentalist. |
| Date | 14:31:50, December 19, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Strategic Crop Production Proposal |
| Message | Voting for does remove all Government subsidies though... |
| Date | 18:53:40, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Strategic Crop Production Proposal |
| Message | Voting for this would be me voting to kill off the bill i proposed. |
| Date | 19:43:59, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Left Communist Party | To | Debating the Strategic Crop Production Proposal |
| Message | We agree with the HPP and CSP. No. |
| Date | 19:55:35, December 19, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Strategic Crop Production Proposal |
| Message | Tactical Abstaination |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 60 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 288 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 52 |
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