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Bill: Nationalisation of Food Produce
Details
Submitted by[?]: Majatran Socialist 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: August 2182
Description[?]:
| Following years of nationalisation, the attempts to allow small businesses to own farms have been a complete failure. As small businesses no longer have the money to buy the farms they have all been swooped up greedy capitalist monopolies, or are contolled as such through back-breaking bank loans. This was one of the reasons for nationalising in the first place. Furthermore, we need the farming and fishing infrastructure to be ran for the people, by the people and to be centrally planned in order to maximise efficiency and be sure we will produce enough of everything. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: Strategic crops are produced on State owned farms. All other produce is left to the Private sector.
Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: All agricultural operations are state-owned and operated.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Commercial fishing regulation.
Old value:: The government establishes fishing quotas.
Current: The government establishes fishing quotas.
Proposed: The fishing industry is nationalised, and the government sets production levels.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:26:17, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Majatran Socialist Party | To | Debating the Nationalisation of Food Produce |
| Message | For the people, not for profit! |
| Date | 18:35:26, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Al'Badaran Conservative Party | To | Debating the Nationalisation of Food Produce |
| Message | You must be mistaken, greedy capitalist monopolies could possibly buy up the land as you have stated, the reasons for this is that corporate tax is set to a level which can prevent it and forign orginisations are prevented from doing buying up the land by the government as per our forign investment policy. |
| Date | 18:42:03, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Al'Badaran Conservative Party | To | Debating the Nationalisation of Food Produce |
| Message | In fact, one might speculate that current policy has actually improved the public agriculture sector by reducing theamount of bureacracy needed and even focus on the crops which drive our economy. |
| Date | 00:29:54, February 07, 2006 CET | From | Majatran Socialist Party | To | Debating the Nationalisation of Food Produce |
| Message | The foreign investment policy has changed, corporate tax is not nearly high enough and can be gotten out of with skilled accountants. |
| Date | 15:32:38, February 07, 2006 CET | From | Al'Badaran Conservative Party | To | Debating the Nationalisation of Food Produce |
| Message | Investments still require government approval, so unless the government approves it -which I doubt- the small businesses are safe from forign large businesses. Also since all local businesses are run by the DWC there is no danger from within. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 228 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 445 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 77 |
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