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Bill: Re-divide the land
Details
Submitted by[?]: Party for a Democratic Socialist Society
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 2175
Description[?]:
| Re-divide the land amongst poorer landless farmers |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Farm size is not regulated.
Current: Farm size is not regulated.
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 | 21:44:41, January 23, 2006 CET | From |  Jakania Citizens' Party | To | Debating the Re-divide the land |
| Message | Im certainly against this socialist idea whereby hard working entrepenurs have land stripped away for simply being good businessmen or women. |
| Date | 12:58:12, January 24, 2006 CET | From | Jakanian Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Re-divide the land |
| Message | Supported There is a limited ammount of arrable land in Jakania, by breaking huge mega farms up it would give more opportunity to other entrepenuers to be good farms and provide more for Jakania. |
| Date | 07:19:09, January 25, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian-Socialist Coalition | To | Debating the Re-divide the land |
| Message | Bad idea. We're taking away private property from investors without proper compensation. United Jakania does not allow the federal government to claim eminent domain. This'll be a very awkward and contradictory legal scheme we'd be setting up. Even if investors were compensated, there are two other problems: 1) How can we guarantee that good farmers will also make for good businessmen? Theoretically, they could band together with other farmers to make collectives...until the maximum farm size rule kicks in again. 2) If I were a sneaky CEO of BigFoodCo, I'd make very sure that I kept my farm at the maximum allowable size and, perhaps, "buy stock" in the farms of other farmers who need my "technical and economic expertise" as well as credit. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 158 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 20 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 72 |
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