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Bill: College Education For Aloria
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa)
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: April 2440
Description[?]:
Every party except MLP and CP voted for Article I last time, resulting in a tie vote in the parliament, narrowly defeating the bill. DRs predict that in the next election, the MLP/CP coalition will be reduced to fewer than 300 seats, and that this bill, which will help level the playing field, making economic opportunity a reality for all Alorians, will prevail. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Current: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 23:17:20, August 03, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the College Education For Aloria |
Message | We supply a perfectly free, good and voluntary K-12 education system that adequatly prepares children for decent jobs. What more is needed? Article 2: We are against written slander and protect the right to sue for that, what is spoken is a whole other ballgame. |
Date | 00:45:04, August 04, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the College Education For Aloria |
Message | Agreed. |
Date | 09:35:55, August 04, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberalism Party | To | Debating the College Education For Aloria |
Message | The Eye seeks to grant It's children knowledge and protection from the serpentine tongues of the ignorant. If anything these proposals do not stretch far enough! |
Date | 22:03:52, August 04, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the College Education For Aloria |
Message | "It's" is a conjunction of "it" and "is." The word you're looking for is "its." |
Date | 04:23:47, August 05, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberalism Party | To | Debating the College Education For Aloria |
Message | And that is exactly the reason education should be more subsidized. |
Date | 13:54:24, August 06, 2007 CET | From | United Laborers | To | Debating the College Education For Aloria |
Message | I fully back the Democratic Rationalist's in their attempt to provide for the higher education of the people of Aloria. Why should those who have had the luck of being born financially secure have more opportunities then those who were not? |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||
yes | Total Seats: 79 | |||
no |
Total Seats: 382 | |||
abstain | Total Seats: 139 |
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