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Bill: Municipal Agriculture Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Eco-Communalist Confederation
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: March 4027
Description[?]:
| We propose that the collectives farms be broken up once the farms become too large and monopolistic, so that farmers and agri-workers can better manage their agricultural practices. For instance some of the hill farmers of the islands will better manage their own collective farms without being merged into larger agri-collectives. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 | 18:50:04, May 08, 2016 CET | From | Bauer-Arbeitspartei (Farmer-Labor Party) | To | Debating the Municipal Agriculture Bill |
| Message | Yes |
| Date | 18:54:49, May 08, 2016 CET | From | Eco-Communalist Confederation | To | Debating the Municipal Agriculture Bill |
| Message | Bill will be moved to vote with BAP support. |
| Date | 16:35:38, May 09, 2016 CET | From | The Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Municipal Agriculture Bill |
| Message | People should be able to farm as much land as they can, without government interference |
| Date | 22:18:01, May 09, 2016 CET | From | Eco-Communalist Confederation | To | Debating the Municipal Agriculture Bill |
| Message | The farms are already 'run' by the state anyway (although, since government policy states that most enterprises, private or state-owned, are to be run as democratic worker's cooperatives surely most farms in Keymon are agricultural collectives and not necessarily RUN by the government as such, but certainly OWNED by the state). This legislation is to stop farms from becoming too large, surely a libertarian party wouldn't want one massive agricultural group running every farm, appropriating everybody's small-holding? Libertarianism, certianly on the Left anyway, is about ensuring that people are free from exploitation and encroachment, whether by 'the State' or by large corporations/businesses, or individuals. Allowing the government to block farm expansion that gets too big, is a perfectly libertarian policy. |
| Date | 22:22:07, May 09, 2016 CET | From | Eco-Communalist Confederation | To | Debating the Municipal Agriculture Bill |
| Message | Right-wing libertarianism is misguided in it's belief that "freeing the markets frees the people" - in fact, most exploitation and abuse on a daily basis, is carried out by private enterprise in the pursuit of profit over rationality. Polluting rivers and the environment in general, forcing workers to work long hours for low wages, forcing people out of their homes when they cannot pay increasing rents - this is not freedom. This is servitude. Servitude to greed and profit. True libertarianism is about ensuring people are free from abuses. That is why our Confederation espouses the ideas and principles of libertarian municipal communalism |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 182 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 76 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 43 |
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| Random quote: "The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." - Aristotle |