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Bill: Agricultural Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Popular Bloc
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: October 4675
Description[?]:
| Agriculture is one of the most important components of the economy. Nevertheless, important parts of agriculture are inefficient and can not meet the interests of the people and the state. Therefore the most strategic and important farms should be nationalized and by socialization bring into public ownership, including democratic worker's councils and the workers should own the majority (90%) of the shares of the their workplace (the state should not intervene or control except in critical situations like war of crisis), the remainder will continue to be produced privately to produce regional and other non-strategic but nevertheless important goods, the state will financially support the private farms if necessary. As strategic corps are designated as important corps which are used in emergency situations and stored in advance to supply special cases to the military and the population (of course, also such corps in the private sector are produced normally, nevertheless these corps are also produced by the socialized farms in order to provide basic corps in emergency situations), as Important corps that are important for the prevention of the population are inefficiently produced little or not at all. Only then will the needs of the state and the people be satisfied and an efficient democratic production and democratical decision-making process guaranteed. Article I: Strategic corps should be produced by state or nationalized farms Article II: All state own farms should be publicly owned and include democratic worker's councils Article III: The workers owns 90% of the shares, 10% of shares owns the government Article IV: The government will subsidize privately owned farms to ensure a stable economy Mauricio Ipólito MP Minister of Food and Agriculture & Anastasia Urgeillstone MP Leader of the PB |
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: Strategic crops are produced on State owned farms. All other produce is left to the Private sector.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:35:36, November 26, 2019 CET | From | Social Capital Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Bill |
| Message | While the SCP supports democratic workers councils (we prefer the phrase "cooperatives"), it has as its core the expansion of ownership of farm land into the hands of smallholders. We would like to see such smallholders becoming and remaining the majority farm owners and these State farms kept to a minimum. Even if democratically run, these State owned farms are not owned by the people who run them but instead they serve as employees or workers. A private cooperative of consenting smallholders is by far preferable to government fiat demanding what is produced and at what quantities of its employees; putting lipstick on a pig still makes it a pig, and simply allowing the employees to decide their hours still makes them employees and not owners. The SCP finds this troubling. What would the PB define as "strategic crops"? Are these foodstuffs like grain, potatoes, or pineapples? Or would these be commercial cash crops such as cotton, flax, or palms? Until the PB defines these, the SCP cannot support this act. |
| Date | 15:49:04, December 04, 2019 CET | From | National Peoples Party of the Empire | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Bill |
| Message | We approve and will advocate for the defence of this bill in the streets. |
| Date | 22:18:57, December 04, 2019 CET | From | Popular Bloc | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Bill |
| Message | We changed and outlined the bill. |
| Date | 01:33:00, December 05, 2019 CET | From | Social Capital Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Bill |
| Message | Even if democratically run, these State owned farms are not owned by the people who run them but instead they serve as employees or workers. A private cooperative of consenting smallholders is by far preferable to government fiat demanding what is produced and at what quantities of its employees; putting lipstick on a pig still makes it a pig, and simply allowing the employees to decide their hours still makes them employees and not owners. The SCP finds this troubling. What would the PB define as "strategic crops"? Are these foodstuffs like grain, potatoes, or pineapples? Or would these be commercial cash crops such as cotton, flax, or palms? Until the PB defines these, the SCP cannot support this act. |
| Date | 17:39:03, December 05, 2019 CET | From | Social Liberty Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Bill |
| Message | Even considering the value of nationalizing the production of strategic crops, changing our subsidies policy that way will end up with the low-income farming families' subsidies, what is detrimental to the small business and only helps the Big Capital |
| Date | 18:07:47, December 05, 2019 CET | From | Popular Bloc | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Bill |
| Message | I understand that you are concerned with the property issue. The workers should, as already written, own 90% of the shares of their workplaces (that means workers own the farm) and the remaining 10% should belong to the government / state. Of course, the state owns the property rights and thus the state also owns the farms, but only 1/8 of the farm and the vast majority of workers owns the 8/9 of the farm. The state alone is not involved in the procedures and decisions making processes of farm except in financial crises or emergencies. This means that production, wages, stocks, etc. will be decided by the workers' councils, not by the government. In our view, these are not complete state-owned farms or means of production and instead are a socialized/ publicly owned/worker's owned farms or means of the production with just a minimum state share. Stragetic corps are corps wich the military and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture or the democratic worker's councils with the support with the named institutions find as important and necessary to produce in order to provide basic food or productions from these corps in crisis or emergency situations (it can be everything, but produced a alongside the private sector, the private sector of course produces the majority of these same corps but used in the market as normal corps) or corps wich are necessary and important but the production is too low, unsufficient and unsatisfying in order to provide these corps. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 100 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 193 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 67 |
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