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Bill: Resolution to Prevent Abuse of Free Tuition
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Populist Social Democrats
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2334
Description[?]:
| We expect we may need to amend this in response to discussion before bringing it to a vote. The LITP has expressed the reservation about the free tuition program that it may lead to people leading lives as professional students continually subsidized by the government. That is not its intent, and given that it did not cover living expenses we never believed that this would be a problem, but we will nevertheless propose limitations to address it. The idea is that a person during his lifetime should be able to be subsidized by free tuition twice toward college or vocational degrees, and after that the subsidy should drop substantially. We had been planning to limit the number of years during which the subsidy could be received, but the point was made that different degree programs take different lengths of time and credit hours. However, there is also the fact that students change their mind about what to pursue, so we cannot require them to state that upon matriculation to receive the grant money. So, what we propose is that the general rule, and the minimum subsidized, shall be the amount of classes required for one undergraduate degree in most fields-- the typical four year degree. We will call that number X. So, every student is entitled to X*2 credit hours of undergraduate or vocational school grants in his lifetime. However, a student who enters a field whose undergraduate training requires more than X credits can fill out a form with the government requesting that this extension of grants cover whatever number of credits the undergraduate degree requires. He can receive this, as long as he is making adequate progress toward the degree. Almost all other courses wll still be subsidized, we propose but at a much lower rate. Tuition, as the amount of money it costs the public university or other secondary school to provide the course, will be in all cases beyond the maximum lifetime amount, subsidized by a grant of 25% of the cost, and the student may take out up to 50% of the cost in low-interest student loans. The remaining 25% he must come up with on his own, and the loan must be repaid by 20% of after-tax income starting six months after its issuance. This 20% must continue to be paid until the loan is paid off. Note that these payments must be made even if one remains in school. If not, one has not solved any professional student problem but has perpetuated it as a person stays in school to avoid having to pay the loans off. Postgraduate work, including graduate school, medical school, law school, or anything similar, is treated similarly, with a 25% subsidy. The only difference is the other 75% can be fully borrowed. Medical and law school graduates can be expected to be able to come up with the money. This is not so with graduate students in many cases, but generally they get graduate assistantships. For those who attempt medical or law school and fail, the payback amount is 20% of after-tax income, so while it will be a burden on them, they will not be forced to pay this off too fast. Note that for a typical student, he would graduate with his bachelor's degree debt-free, and not having had to pay for classes. He can even go back one additional time for a new course of study. Graduate students would generally get assistantships and not require debt. Doctors and lawyers would generally end up with debt after their schooling, but have the income to pay it off easily. We hereby propose that the above limitations be instituted. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:47:32, December 23, 2006 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Resolution to Prevent Abuse of Free Tuition |
| Message | This is a fine pice of work, and the LITP heartily endorses it. |
| Date | 00:14:57, December 24, 2006 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Resolution to Prevent Abuse of Free Tuition |
| Message | Okay, we will keep this open for other comments, and if there is general consensus that this is fair (if no one says anything, we will assume they find this a fair system) we will bring it to a vote soon. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 75 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 124 |
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