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Bill: Fully Subsidised Tuition Plan
Details
Submitted by[?]: Benevolent Totalitarian 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 2066
Description[?]:
| A strong nation requires an educated population; if university tuition is fully subsidised, students will be admitted to university based solely on their merits, rather than their parents' money. Thus, we shall move closer to a true meritocracy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Current: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:48:51, June 13, 2005 CET | From | Benevolent Totalitarian Party | To | Debating the Fully Subsidised Tuition Plan |
| Message | Why does the CNP oppose this bill? Is not meritocracy a conservative value? |
| Date | 18:54:04, June 13, 2005 CET | From | New Labour Party | To | Debating the Fully Subsidised Tuition Plan |
| Message | a good bill |
| Date | 21:13:05, June 13, 2005 CET | From | Neo-Libertarian Party of Kalistan | To | Debating the Fully Subsidised Tuition Plan |
| Message | Too much government intervention! |
| Date | 00:13:55, June 14, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Kalistan Party | To | Debating the Fully Subsidised Tuition Plan |
| Message | Could the BTP PLEASE wait until the other bill dealing with the same topic is finished being voted upon next time? Thanks. |
| Date | 20:12:38, June 14, 2005 CET | From | Benevolent Totalitarian Party | To | Debating the Fully Subsidised Tuition Plan |
| Message | NDP, what are you doing? The other bill will be passed before this one anyway. There's no reason to wait. Please vote yes! |
| Date | 20:14:43, June 14, 2005 CET | From | Benevolent Totalitarian Party | To | Debating the Fully Subsidised Tuition Plan |
| Message | By the way, there was a poll on this very issue not long ago (check the news): An opinion poll was held among the citizens of the Federal Republic of Kalistan. The subject of the opinion poll was Higher Education Tuition Policy. When asked what their opinions were, the following choices were made: 34.74% - The government fully subsidizes tuition. 16.99% - The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor. 31.84% - The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs. 16.43% - The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs. |
| Date | 14:47:34, June 15, 2005 CET | From | Interstate Centrist Party | To | Debating the Fully Subsidised Tuition Plan |
| Message | I don't remember voting yes on this!! >:( |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 234 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 399 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 117 |
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