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Bill: Agrarreform, 3622
Details
Submitted by[?]: Solidarität
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: October 3622
Description[?]:
| Herr Präsident, Hard-working farmers are being deprived of their livelihood by amoral global agribusinesses which are wreaking havoc across rural communities and decimating our environment. We need an agriculture policy that stands up for hard-working small farmers and agricultural labourers. Max Siegel MdR Chairman of Solidarity Leader of the Opposition |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises agriculture based on market demand for the crop being grown.
Current: Strategic crops are produced on State owned farms. All other produce is left to the Private sector.
Proposed: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Farm size is not regulated.
Current: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Proposed: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:42:10, February 14, 2014 CET | From |  Liberale Volkspartei | To | Debating the Agrarreform, 3622 |
| Message | Herr Präsident, the current policy assists low-income farmers no less than larger contenders, since subsidization is a question of the farming methods employed and not of the size of agricultural businesses. Furthermore, the populist land redistribution proposed by Solidarity would wreak greater havoc on rural communities than any corporation could ever do - fixed capital and means of production used on large-scale farms cannot be redistributed as easily as land, and neither can they be broken up and allocated among smaller farmers. Thus, Herr Siegel's policy would lead to a massive destruction of productive capital, and as a result would endanger reliable food supply. It is a dangerous and naive policy that must be blocked at all costs. Ottfried Stierschneider, MdR LVP/LB-Mitrania Agrarminister |
| Date | 19:34:25, February 14, 2014 CET | From | Solidarität | To | Debating the Agrarreform, 3622 |
| Message | Herr Präsident, It is no surprise to hear the vested interests of global agribusiness being defended by one of their lackeys. It is a surprise - and a disgrace - that that the lackey in question is also the Minister of Agriculture. Max Siegel MdR Chairman of Solidarity Leader of the Opposition |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 261 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 382 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: The majority of nations in Particracy are "Culturally Protected" with an established cultural background. Only the "Culturally Open" nations are not bound by the rules surrounding culture. The Cultural Protocols Index should be consulted for more information about the cultural situation of each nation. |
| Random quote: "The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." - George Washington |