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Bill: Agricultural Policy Reformation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Republican Party
Status[?]: passed
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 3805
Description[?]:
| This bill seeks to cut back on government subsidies to failing farms - providing instead only for the continuance of farms producing strategically necessary goods - and removing regulation on the size of farms, a governmental overreach that hurts our businesspeople. It also proposes the devolution of quota-setting to local governments more in-tune with the ecological and economic needs of their communities. |
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: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Proposed: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Farm size regulations are determined by local governments.
Current: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Proposed: Farm size is not regulated.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Commercial fishing regulation.
Old value:: The government establishes fishing quotas.
Current: The government establishes fishing quotas.
Proposed: Local governments can establish fishing quotas
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:15:43, February 21, 2015 CET | From | National Republican Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Policy Reformation Act |
| Message | This bill seeks to cut back on government subsidies to failing farms - providing instead only for the continuance of farms producing strategically necessary goods - and removing regulation on the size of farms, a governmental overreach that hurts our businesspeople. It also proposes the devolution of quota-setting to local governments more in-tune with the ecological and economic needs of their communities. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes | Total Seats: 39 | |
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 36 |
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| Random quote: "By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens." - John Maynard Keynes |