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Bill: The Local Government Education Act of 2411
Details
Submitted by[?]: Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition)
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: May 2412
Description[?]:
| An act to turn over the public education system to the local governments. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:32:29, May 30, 2007 CET | From | Party Royale | To | Debating the The Local Government Education Act of 2411 |
| Message | This bill will put higher education out of the financial reach of most working class Alorians. It will make the rich richer and the poor poorer, and destroy the last shreds of the meritocracy that exist in this country. |
| Date | 05:15:47, May 30, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the The Local Government Education Act of 2411 |
| Message | You're acting like it won't be funded, that if it's in the jurisdiction of local government it might as well be gone! Well it can be funded just as well by local government as national. Anything we can do they can do better because they're closer to the people! |
| Date | 15:38:49, May 30, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the The Local Government Education Act of 2411 |
| Message | This is a compromise devolution style bill. |
| Date | 18:28:16, May 30, 2007 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the The Local Government Education Act of 2411 |
| Message | The local government is in a better position to judge circumstances on a case-by-case basis than us. |
| Date | 18:40:09, May 30, 2007 CET | From | Party Royale | To | Debating the The Local Government Education Act of 2411 |
| Message | And if the local government decides that it wants a university, but doesn't have the money to pay for it, will the national government help at all? If not, then all this bill does is shut down our university system, leaving millions of aspiring students out in the cold. |
| Date | 18:48:09, May 30, 2007 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the The Local Government Education Act of 2411 |
| Message | Well, yes, through our local government funding. |
| Date | 19:16:41, May 30, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the The Local Government Education Act of 2411 |
| Message | They'll have to budget. They run like national government except on a smaller scale; therefore, if we can fund an entire system of higher education facilities, they can surely fund one or two per every medium to large municipality. |
| Date | 21:17:33, May 30, 2007 CET | From | Party Royale | To | Debating the The Local Government Education Act of 2411 |
| Message | So much has been devolved recently to local governments that there is no way they can handle all their new responsibilites. Also, if one region of the country is doing poorly economically, it is the responsibility of the rest of our country to help it recover, and the only way we can do that is by running these programs on the national level. Otherwise, why have any national government at all? |
| Date | 16:15:20, May 31, 2007 CET | From | Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the The Local Government Education Act of 2411 |
| Message | As we have said before, let's give all our powers to Dorvik as we have far too many as it is, and we can't handle it... |
| Date | 17:22:44, May 31, 2007 CET | From | Party Royale | To | Debating the The Local Government Education Act of 2411 |
| Message | We are not Dorvik, and are not connected to them in any way. Gavonshire and Ultran, however, are both part of the same country; they are not separate from each other; they are not independent countries, and they should not be setting all their own policies. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 436 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 164 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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