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Bill: Agricultural Reform Act IIa
Details
Submitted by[?]: Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX
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: March 2177
Description[?]:
| A bill to overturn agricultural subsidies, an unwanted violation of the free market. |
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: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:29:37, January 26, 2006 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act IIa |
| Message | Why should the tax payers of Baltusia pay for subsidies to low-income farmers? Presumably because they are low-income. Let's examine why they are low-income in the first place. It is probably because THEY AREN'T GOOD FARMERS!* Why should we encourage poor quality food, poor productivity and deny poorer still foreign farmers a chance to trade on a level playing field with what are probably superior goods? I suppose if you like crappy food, like making poor people poorer still and are completely blind to reality, you'd continue to vote against reform but then, one has to wonder, what capability you have to lead... *In the even that natural circumstances (ala flooding, tornadoes, etc) kill off crops, then the farmers affected should apply for nationalisation under the terms of Vital Industries Bill until such time as they can get back on their feet. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 150 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 201 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 10 |
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