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Bill: Farm Subsidies Act of 3620
Details
Submitted by[?]: Aldurian 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: May 3621
Description[?]:
| Not only will this bill help farmers who may be struggling, but it'll help lower the costs of food for every Aldurian. It is high time that this body pass this bill to help both our farmers and our working class. Subsidize farms! |
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: Strategic crops are produced on State owned farms. All other produce is left to the Private sector.
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 | 05:14:11, February 10, 2014 CET | From | Ligue Anarcho-Communiste | To | Debating the Farm Subsidies Act of 3620 |
| Message | We'd like some clarification as to how doing this at the national level would be better than allowing local or État governments to handle this. |
| Date | 05:38:19, February 10, 2014 CET | From | Aldurian Communist Party | To | Debating the Farm Subsidies Act of 3620 |
| Message | While we would be perfectly happy to allow the Etats to handle the subsidization of agriculture some Etats lean to the right, (as past elections have shown) and may very well choose not to subsidize agriculture. In effect we would various different policies across Alduria. We believe that this would be counterproductive. Ideally we would be able to trust the Etats to do what is best fro the every day Aldurian citizen, but we don't believe that we can this time. |
| Date | 06:28:24, February 10, 2014 CET | From | Religious Workers' Party | To | Debating the Farm Subsidies Act of 3620 |
| Message | To assume that local governments can't manage their own industries is elitist. While we see the importance of a productive agricultural sector, we don't see that as anything the États can't handle independently. |
| Date | 08:34:39, February 10, 2014 CET | From | Aldurian Communist Party | To | Debating the Farm Subsidies Act of 3620 |
| Message | Again, it isn't that we don't think that the Etats can't handle it, we simply fear that they won't. |
| Date | 17:33:35, February 10, 2014 CET | From | Ligue Anarcho-Communiste | To | Debating the Farm Subsidies Act of 3620 |
| Message | The LSL is also bothered that it would be market-based. |
| Date | 21:40:52, February 10, 2014 CET | From | Republican Party (GOP) | To | Debating the Farm Subsidies Act of 3620 |
| Message | we are against this goes against our core principle of free-market economics. |
| Date | 03:39:32, February 11, 2014 CET | From | Aldurian Communist Party | To | Debating the Farm Subsidies Act of 3620 |
| Message | We don't understand the LSL's objection to the subsidies being based on market demand. The law of supplies and demand are what determine prices after all. If their is a high demand and low supply then the costs of certain foods while rise. It is for this reason that we propose that we subsidize those crops which are in high demand, to keep their costs low. If their is a high demand for a crop, it is obviously a crop that people are in need of, so we want those prices to be low. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 90 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 374 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 286 |
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