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Bill: Agricultural Autonomy Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Chorus of Amyst
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: January 2073
Description[?]:
| In light of recent polls, and especially given the Council's stance toward both local government power and subsidy policies, this act seeks to allow local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy as they see fit, rather than leaving it to the national government. |
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: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Proposed: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:53:51, June 17, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | While the intent to reflect the desire of the people is well intentioned, the consequences of such action could be disasterous. Rapula having a prediliction for government action in many fields would attract the majority of farmers away from those states without such interventionist prediliction. The economic imbalance would be a further cause of instability in a nation that is only just recovering from the recent upheavals. We in the ASP would recommend deferring this action for a while, to allow a period of stability in the nation. |
| Date | 17:43:53, June 17, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | While favouring decentralization, we would point out that there are environmental issues realting to agriculture with antional implications. For instance, the use of toxic pesticides in one region will affect the ecosystem of other regions, while excessive irrigation by one region would lower the water table for the entire country. If the bill is submitted for a vote, we would propose that local governments be required to abide by national environmental standards. |
| Date | 23:53:12, June 18, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | This bill does not concern regulations of agriculture. It only deals with the government's part in paying for agricultural ventures. |
| Date | 06:27:17, June 20, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | The most recent opinion poll suggests that the people would prefer a policy of The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.(27.60%) The current policy was least popular, that of The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.(14.09%) http://aiglesrv.no-ip.info:8080/particracy/main/viewnews.php?newsid=2145 |
| Date | 20:48:17, June 21, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | The collectivization act eliminates agricultural subsidies. Hint, hint. |
| Date | 00:13:12, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | State owned and operated? Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy. Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families. Proposed: All agricultural operations are state-owned and operated |
| Date | 00:29:26, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | TiC This is not the collectivization debate. |
| Date | 10:00:33, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | "Date: 20:48:17, June 21, 2005 CET From: CNT/AFL (PACF) Message: The collectivization act eliminates agricultural subsidies. Hint, hint." I was saying that it doesnt eliminate subsidies... |
| Date | 19:04:00, June 22, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | Sorry, I didn't realize there was a proposal involved in that bill. |
| Date | 21:24:06, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | Well, it does eliminate subsidies in a way. Right now we pay farmers to grow crops. If agriculture is collectivized, the subsidies stop and are replaced with a controlled market Both this proposal and the collectivizaiton one eliminate the current farm subsidies regime, although in very different ways. |
| Date | 22:24:28, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | Usually agricultural subsidies include paying farmers NOT to grow crops... New Deal agricultural policies at least... But subsides are the start of a controlled market. To me, the two are inseperably linked. |
| Date | 19:37:48, June 26, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | We will support this, as better than the current situation. |
| Date | 17:20:01, June 27, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Agricultural Autonomy Act |
| Message | With the passage of the Clean Earth act, we are able to support this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 345 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 65 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 40 |
| Random fact: Unless otherwise stated, monarchs and their royal houses will be presumed to be owned by the player who introduced the bill appointing them to their position. |
| Random quote: "Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience." - Ernest Dimnet |