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Bill: Tuition Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Freedom Party
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: November 2099
Description[?]:
| We should help as many kids to go to college. Education is one of the most important things. |
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 fully subsidizes tuition.
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 | 23:50:05, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Tuition Act |
| Message | The supply of higher education is VERY inelastic since private schools aren't going to increase their student body sizes just because they can have more subsidies. Subsidizing tuition will only make prices go up, not help more kids attend. If we want to help more kids attend college, we should build more public universities--since that would actually increase the supply, and not just shift the demand upwards. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 84 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 77 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 39 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "It is obvious that the laissez-faire ideology represents the interests of big business. For decades, the right-wing has opposed welfare programs and nationalised companies, in favour of big business disguised under 'economic liberty'." - Cecilia Xu, former Gaduri politician |