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Bill: Small Farm Relief Package (2347)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Catholic Workers Union
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 2350
Description[?]:
| Our small farms form the backbone of our national economy, and they provide a crucial link to our past. We propose subsidized farming along with an end to force collectivization, to be substituted by a policy of fair distribution of land from large government and private agribusinesses. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: Strategic crops are produced on State owned farms. All other produce is left to the Private sector.
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.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Small farms are encouraged to merge together into larger ones.
Current: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Proposed: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:17:31, January 20, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Small Farm Relief Package (2347) |
| Message | Another serious bill for a serious time. |
| Date | 08:33:45, January 21, 2007 CET | From | National Fasco-Communist Order | To | Debating the Small Farm Relief Package (2347) |
| Message | We could support Article 1, but Article 2 is entirely unacceptable. |
| Date | 23:25:19, January 22, 2007 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Small Farm Relief Package (2347) |
| Message | I like article 1. I don't like either option on article 2. Is there a 'has no position' option? |
| Date | 23:38:00, January 22, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Small Farm Relief Package (2347) |
| Message | Article 2 is important though since we've undergone so many years of nationalized collectivization. |
| Date | 00:16:57, January 26, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Small Farm Relief Package (2347) |
| Message | It saddens me to see Labour and the PSF oppose a bill that would encourage local land ownership. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 73 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 130 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 98 |
| Random fact: The voters enjoy active parties who take upon themselves the initiative to create laws. |
| Random quote: "[The people] may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." - Carl W. Buechner |