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Bill: Assistance for Higher Education Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Centre Party of Gaduridos
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: April 2066
Description[?]:
| Higher Education ought to be accessible to all, regardless of their financial means. For that reason, the government of the Free State of Gaduridos undertakes to subsidize tuition costs for all students from low-income families. |
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 tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:28:50, June 10, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Centre Party of Gaduridos | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | I have separated this proposal from the other bill, as I expect that one to pass much more easily and want to be sure it does. In this case, although it would be nice to be able to subsidize all students to some degree, the cost would be prohibitive. We should target the help where it is needed, and let those who can afford to pay do so. |
| Date | 04:57:46, June 10, 2005 CET | From | National Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | We do not support this bill, unlike the other bill. We vote no. |
| Date | 11:31:44, June 10, 2005 CET | From | National Democratic Party | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | this is a step in the right direction...but we wish it went further. However in this age of conflict, we cannot go further, therefore we vote yes. |
| Date | 12:35:51, June 10, 2005 CET | From | Social Democrat Party | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | yes |
| Date | 13:25:17, June 10, 2005 CET | From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | Perhaps if we switch to moderate pollution controls we can colect more taxes from new industries to pay for full subsidization of students? |
| Date | 13:29:02, June 10, 2005 CET | From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | That is simply a hypothetical proposed solution. We do however support this bill although we'd like to see free education in the future. |
| Date | 14:28:14, June 10, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Centre Party of Gaduridos | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | We have long been in favour of more moderate pollution controls. If a majority is willing to agree to that, we'd be happy to amend this bill to allow for free tuition. Are any other parties interested in that solution? (I figure it would take two of you, beyond ourselves and the NLP who voted for moderate pollution laws last time). |
| Date | 19:03:15, June 11, 2005 CET | From | Social Democrat Party | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | No. The environment is a key issue. We are destroying the earth and it must be stopped for the long term future of our planet. |
| Date | 23:01:19, June 11, 2005 CET | From | soccer_trekkie Party | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | We agree with the People's progressive party and vote yes in the hopes that their idea also passes soon. |
| Date | 23:32:01, June 11, 2005 CET | From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | Well that was why I proposed having the vocational schools and small colleges be regulated by local governments so that they wouldnt be on the federal governments back and we can keep high pollution controls. Besides the local economies are all different and thus have different workforce needs that the vocational/colleges can provide. |
| Date | 03:28:56, June 12, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Centre Party of Gaduridos | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | I'm going to move this to vote now, I think it has a fair amount of support and is, for the time being, the best solution. We are amenable to increasing the size of subsidies at a later date. |
| Date | 09:53:05, June 12, 2005 CET | From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Assistance for Higher Education Act |
| Message | Given that its war time lets go with this for starters. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 304 | ||||||||
| no | Total Seats: 47 | ||||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Jezvraljogadsrlji" means "Social" in the Jelbic languages. |
| Random quote: "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - John Maynard Keynes |