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Bill: Opportunity 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 2453
Description[?]:
| A bill to increase the availability of educational opportunities to all Alorians, thus helping make Aloria a more truely meritocratic society. |
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 subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes 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 | 06:16:23, September 09, 2007 CET | From |   Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Opportunity for Aloria |
| Message | No more welfare state handouts and giveaways. Free college leads to its decline. People who shouldn't go go and it ruins it from everybody involved. Not to mention the waste of money. |
| Date | 10:22:23, September 09, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberalism Party | To | Debating the Opportunity for Aloria |
| Message | This proposal seems unnecessary, let the education facilities themselves co-ordinate the scholarship programs. |
| Date | 10:23:26, September 09, 2007 CET | From | Alorian Free Democrats | To | Debating the Opportunity for Aloria |
| Message | By "people who shouldn't go" you mean the poor? Anyone who isn't from the proper families? What a sad attempt at defending the status quo. |
| Date | 19:56:52, September 09, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Opportunity for Aloria |
| Message | No. People who aren't smart enough. Some people would be a better help if the unclogged toilets then becoming doctors. |
| Date | 20:59:48, September 09, 2007 CET | From | Alorian Free Democrats | To | Debating the Opportunity for Aloria |
| Message | It's simple enough. Right now people who shouldn't go, can go because they have the money. While people who should, can't, because they don't. Right now being smart enough isn't a criterion, being rich enough is. It's plutocractic, not meritocractic. And where in our constitution does it say that the government decides who becomes a doctor and who becomes a janitor? Perhaps another name change is in order; how does 'Keepers of the Upper Class' sound? |
| Date | 21:01:25, September 09, 2007 CET | From | Alorian Free Democrats | To | Debating the Opportunity for Aloria |
| Message | You see the effects of this shoddy system? A senator who can't even spell -cratic. |
| Date | 00:34:29, September 10, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Opportunity for Aloria |
| Message | There are scholarships. Besides, we have a perfectly good and free K-12 system. This system prepares people enough for holding a job and feeding themselves and their family. We can't send everyone to college, it just isn't practical. If those who's parents can't afford it want it they can do good in school, get scholarships, and work a part time job. It is not impossible, despite what you may think. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 289 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 311 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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