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Bill: Farming Efficiency Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian-Socialist Coalition
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 2185
Description[?]:
| United we profit, divided we default. Current Jakanian law breaks up farms and redistributes the land should a farm become too large. While we support land ownership as a central part of self-dignity, we nevertheless feel that there are a few problems: 1) Individual farmers have far less access to farming services such as mills, storage, and food processing plants than large farms and groups of farmers could provide. Simply, rather than encouraging farmers to pool together their resources, each individual farmer must rent their own equipment, provide for their own storage, sell their own crops, etc. This is very inefficient. 2) Larger farms are punished for their business sense. There is no point, for example, in maintaining and expanding a farm as a business if the government is going to break up the farm after a certain point. We need to give farmers incentive to do well. What the LSP proposes is that the government encourages farming collectives, where farmers pool their resources together for mutual benefit, side by side with large farms, which will reward the enterprising farmer. In short, everyone benefits. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Current: Farm size is not regulated.
Proposed: Small farms are encouraged to merge together into larger ones.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:04:26, February 12, 2006 CET | From | Jakania Citizens' Party | To | Debating the Farming Efficiency Act |
| Message | fine we agree |
| Date | 21:18:03, February 13, 2006 CET | From | Jakanian Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Farming Efficiency Act |
| Message | were for it... |
| Date | 10:39:37, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Jakanian Conservatives | To | Debating the Farming Efficiency Act |
| Message | i agree yet i dont 'av seats |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 187 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 63 |
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