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Bill: End Government Subsidies of Higher Education
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian Party
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: July 2208
Description[?]:
| A bill to make Higher Education User Pays or Sponsorship onle |
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 leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
Proposed: The government does not maintain any forms of higher education.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
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 does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:02:25, March 29, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the End Government Subsidies of Higher Education |
| Message | Higher Education should not be a burden on the theftation victims! either pay for it or get a sponsor, if higher education becomes non subsidised the corporations will be encouraged to sponsor more graduates to maintain a high level of recruit training. (As long as you do not remove all of their profits!) |
| Date | 06:42:27, March 30, 2006 CET | From | Hutori Freedom Party | To | Debating the End Government Subsidies of Higher Education |
| Message | You kidding? The corporations wouldn't care about sponsoring anyone. They want cheap labor instead of smart, highly paid labor. |
| Date | 20:36:19, March 30, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the End Government Subsidies of Higher Education |
| Message | Actually they would be very interested, uneducated labour is rarely any good if your industry is technology based, or heavily R&D dependent, pharmaceuticals, or higher management, and as for uneducated accountants despite the best efforts of our Finance Minister to proof this thesis it as yet remains highly doubtful. |
| Date | 05:54:04, March 31, 2006 CET | From | Hutori Freedom Party | To | Debating the End Government Subsidies of Higher Education |
| Message | Who would sponsor other things, then? Who would sponsor the future teachers? Who would sponsor the future geographers of our country? The people whos work is important, but aren't in the high-profile, big money jobs? |
| Date | 21:13:09, March 31, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the End Government Subsidies of Higher Education |
| Message | If they arent big earners they arent that important or they would be big earners. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 70 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 116 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 144 |
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