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Bill: Agricultural Aid Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Red and Green Bloc
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: August 2074
Description[?]:
| We must protect small scale farmers, also small farms are environmentally preferable to big agribusiness. |
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: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Proposed: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:45:21, June 29, 2005 CET | From |  Restoration Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | nah |
| Date | 14:48:20, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Red and Green Bloc | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | you care only for the aristocracy, I did not expect your support |
| Date | 16:16:10, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberty Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | I don't think so - the current policy allows for subsidies, it simply lets the local governments take care of the details |
| Date | 16:34:38, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Zuman Independence Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | We support this and wish to set a limit for how much land one person or company can own. To ensure a populated countryside and prevent the horrors of industrialized farming. |
| Date | 21:05:43, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Valruzia | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | No. |
| Date | 21:39:53, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Valruzia | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | There should be no subsidies to begin with, but the status quo is fine as well. |
| Date | 21:53:26, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Zuman Independence Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | Farming must be subsidized in a twisted society like this. |
| Date | 21:59:05, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Valruzia | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | No it must not - people need to handle their own property, not the government. Personal responsibility. |
| Date | 23:31:48, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Alliance for Natural Law | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | We agree, but at the same time, small towns should have control over their finances. We support the status quo. |
| Date | 23:41:48, June 29, 2005 CET | From | Red and Green Bloc | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | This bill hand in hand with the TCP farm size bill will revolutionise Valruzian agriculture |
| Date | 00:05:40, June 30, 2005 CET | From | Alliance for Natural Law | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | You'd have to pass it first. |
| Date | 00:34:34, June 30, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Valruzia | To | Debating the Agricultural Aid Bill |
| Message | It will not revolutionize anything, it will only legalize theft and put a nice tax on the people to help incompetent farmers. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 84 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 83 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 8 |
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