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Bill: Agricultural Modernisation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hzía Nrzi Prta
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 3585
Description[?]:
| Jelbanian agriculture needs to move into the 36th century. Our farms should be made to stand on their own two feet instead of being dependent on taxpayers subsidies. They should also be encourage to merge into larger, more efficient units, and they should not be afraid to use modern techniques such as GM. Lionel Langlois Chairman of the HNP |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Current: The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.
Proposed: The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Current: Farm size is not regulated.
Proposed: Small farms are encouraged to merge together into larger ones.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning genetically modified (GM) crops.
Old value:: Production and selling of GM crops is banned. Research is allowed.
Current: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Proposed: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:08:42, December 01, 2013 CET | From | Knstatak Grundnyr Prta | To | Debating the Agricultural Modernisation Act |
| Message | We certainly must modernize our agriculture, but not at the expense of impoverished Jelbék farmers. Denying them subsistence and encouraging large farms is a return to the era of feudalism, enriching the already powerful clans and allowing inequality to harm Jelbanian democracy. Kezmai Wrntukaidrsme Ornklarz, Minister of Food and Agriculture |
| Date | 01:00:42, December 02, 2013 CET | From | Hzía Nrzi Prta | To | Debating the Agricultural Modernisation Act |
| Message | If Kezmai Wrntukaidrsme Ornklarz cared to take a look at our national budget, he would appreciate we are on the verge of bankruptcy and cannot afford to carry on borrowing money at the rate we currently are. The drive for efficiency and modernisation may be a tough pill to swallow for traditional communities - but they are better than bankruptcy and starvation. Lionel Langlois Chairman of the HNP |
| Date | 02:22:21, December 02, 2013 CET | From | Knstatak Grundnyr Prta | To | Debating the Agricultural Modernisation Act |
| Message | The money we are currently borrowing is used exclusively for the development of a national industry, so that Jelbania may achieve economic independence and a fully modernized industrial economy. Subsidies are paid from taxes collected from formerly privileged clan chiefs, feudal nobility, and the Jelbanien upper class. Kezmai Wrntukaidrsme Ornklarz, Minister of Food and Agriculture |
| Date | 03:14:26, December 02, 2013 CET | From | Hzía Nrzi Prta | To | Debating the Agricultural Modernisation Act |
| Message | Kezmai Wrntukaidrsme Ornklarz has a very peculiar understanding of economics if he imagines his government can "achieve economic independence" by BORROWING money it will take generations upon generations to pay back! All he is doing is pushing us into greater and greater dependence upon our creditors. Lionel Langlois Chairman of the HNP |
| Date | 14:08:16, December 02, 2013 CET | From | Knstatak Grundnyr Prta | To | Debating the Agricultural Modernisation Act |
| Message | The money is used to invest in economic development, which will create revenue and thus the means to repay our debt. Kezmai Wrntukaidrsme Ornklarz, Minister of Food and Agriculture OOC: Kezmai Wrntukaidrsme Ornklarz is a woman. All names that end with -mai are female. |
| Date | 16:13:28, December 02, 2013 CET | From | United New Jelbania | To | Debating the Agricultural Modernisation Act |
| Message | We may not support the inclusion of articles 1 and 2 |
| Date | 00:43:56, December 03, 2013 CET | From | Hzía Nrzi Prta | To | Debating the Agricultural Modernisation Act |
| Message | OOC: Jelbek is going to take me a while to get the hang of! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 75 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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