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Bill: Return to Normalcy V1.7
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Reform Coalition (FRP)
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 2066
Description[?]:
| Due to the link between farm land and property ownership we propose: *To make farms the property of the people who purchased them, rather than the government *To subsidize low-income farmers based on a combination of market demand and poor conditions. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: All agricultural operations are state-owned and operated.
Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: The government subsidises agriculture based on market demand for the crop being grown.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:08:20, June 07, 2005 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Return to Normalcy V1.7 |
| Message | please let us get rid of the many being supported by the work of few that is supported by collective farming. |
| Date | 22:23:19, June 11, 2005 CET | From | Social Republican Party | To | Debating the Return to Normalcy V1.7 |
| Message | Who gets control of these farms? |
| Date | 14:11:56, June 12, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Return to Normalcy V1.7 |
| Message | Typically, when a nationalized industry is privatized, shares are sold on the open market. Often times workers are given the option to buy these shares before they are put on the market, but farm workers are not known for having large sums of capital lying around in case they needed to invest in, you know, keeping their farms in their hands. We hope the SRP will continue to support economic justice through social ownership of agricuture. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 39 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 48 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 13 |
| Random fact: Cabinet ministers who disagree seriously with the head of government would usually be expected to resign. Parties within the cabinet may attempt to manoeuvre to replace the head of government though, for example by proposing a new cabinet bill or voting for an early election. |
| Random quote: "Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is." - William E. Barrett |