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Bill: Collective Farming
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist 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: May 2062
Description[?]:
| The current system see's wealthy farmers exploiting the labour force and making lots of money for doing nothing. Meanwhile, the labourers struggle to provide enough income for their families. At the same time, urban workers find it harder and harder to afford food as the farm owners carefully conspire to drive prices up to line their own pockets! Never mind if it forces the lower class to go hungry! To capitalist nay-sayers, scared of departing from the status quo or upsetting whichever CEO is bankrolling their election campaign I say, in the first half of the 1980s, Hungary, with largely collectivised agriculture, exported more agricultural products than France from an agricultural area little more than a quarter of the French. This is proof that with the right attitude collective farming can work! With a state-controlled agricultural industry we can lower food prices, provide a better living for those working on the farms and reduce dependancy upon our neighbours. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Current: The government subsidises agriculture based on market demand for the crop being grown.
Proposed: All agricultural operations are state-owned and operated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:03:00, June 03, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Collective Farming |
| Message | NO, NO, NO! Nationalisation brings waste and ineffieceny with it. Out nation is moving, Capitalism works. |
| Date | 06:06:27, June 03, 2005 CET | From | Federalist Labour Party | To | Debating the Collective Farming |
| Message | YES, YES, YES! Good jobs, quality products, low prices and funding for social services all through the passage of this legislation! |
| Date | 06:10:08, June 03, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Collective Farming |
| Message | Tell me how state owning the farming industry helps social services? |
| Date | 06:18:08, June 03, 2005 CET | From | Federalist Labour Party | To | Debating the Collective Farming |
| Message | Agriculture is an industry, which creates capital, thus government revenue. Capitalism promotes efficiency by, buying workers at the cheapest wage possible, thus stunting economic expansion? |
| Date | 10:21:24, June 03, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party | To | Debating the Collective Farming |
| Message | What do you mean nationalising bring waste and efficiency? You cant just generalise like that. There are loads of examples of privatisation being wasteful and innefficient, like the train service in the UK. And to be honest I think the most important thing here is to stop exploitation of the workers! The hard labourers that toil in the fields are being ripped off and its time to stop! |
| Date | 19:46:39, June 03, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Christian Royalists | To | Debating the Collective Farming |
| Message | fraid not comrade |
| Date | 00:05:46, June 05, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party | To | Debating the Collective Farming |
| Message | Sorry you feel that way Your Highness/Holyness :-) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 47 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 123 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 83 |
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