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Bill: Food for the People Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Alorian 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: September 2054
Description[?]:
| It is vital that Aloria begins upon the process of collectivising its agriculture. The current system see's wealthy farmers exploiting the labour force and making lots of money for doing nothing. Meanwhile, the labourers struggle to provide enough income for their families. At the same time, urban workers find it harder and harder to afford food as the farm owners carefully conspire to drive prices up to line their own pockets! Never mind if it forces the lower class to go hungry! To capitalist nay-sayers, scared of departing from the status quo or upsetting whichever CEO is bankrolling their election campaign I say, in the first half of the 1980s, Hungary, with largely collectivised agriculture, exported more agricultural products than France from an agricultural area little more than a quarter of the French. This is proof that with the right attitude collective farming can work! With a state-controlled agricultural industry we can lower food prices, provide a better living for those working on the farms and reduce dependancy upon our neighbours. |
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: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Proposed: All agricultural operations are state-owned and operated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:45:33, May 16, 2005 CET | From | To | Debating the Food for the People Act |
| Message | you can not make stuff up since their is no legisation on this issue there is no current situation. |
| Date | 18:29:42, May 16, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Food for the People Act |
| Message | against this communist bullshit. |
| Date | 23:25:22, May 16, 2005 CET | From |  Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Food for the People Act |
| Message | Yep, please stop proposing stuff like this. Put it on to voting or delete it. |
| Date | 11:24:51, May 17, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Food for the People Act |
| Message | And your argument about Hungary is totally outrageous - Hungary had the highest foreign debt in 1980's due to gulash communism eating all of the resources and borrowing outside. Facts, not just your ideas. |
| Date | 11:25:31, May 17, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Food for the People Act |
| Message | highest foreign debt from other communist countries such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania etc. |
| Date | 18:13:07, May 18, 2005 CET | From | Alorian Communist Party | To | Debating the Food for the People Act |
| Message | We wont run our entire economy like Hungary, I was merely showing that collective farming can work! At the end of the day, farms that arent run for profit will make for cheaper food for the average person and better conditions for labourers on farms. |
| Date | 18:30:37, May 18, 2005 CET | From | Alorian Communist Party | To | Debating the Food for the People Act |
| Message | I am shocked to see the 'Marxist' Party voting against this! Perhaps a name change is in order. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 30 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 140 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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