Jewinomics in Frost's America
Jewitt
8 December, 2010, Day 1,114 of the New World - The Consulate of the People’s Wealth reviews and explains the rationale against increasing import taxes, as well as future plans towards Congressional agreement to budgetary and tax reform from the previous announcement.
In our previous statement, the good High Chancellor Frost requested that we have Three Great Reforms. In this, is the evaluation of our current tax scheme and possible alterations to Income and Value-Added Tax (VAT). For a brief explanation, Income taxes automatically come out of your paycheck and VAT is similar to the real-life sales tax.
The concept is simple. Lowering income tax by just 3% will give us a fair idea of our place on the Laffer Curve as well as increase individual savings. In Frost’s America, no citizen should ever pinch pennies to serve on the battlefield. By increasing VAT (note that the majority of VAT is at the lowest possible, 1
😵we would be punishing our fighters by taxing their food and weapon purchases on top of their income. We have in the past increased taxes on items such as weapons for a good reason: Resistance wars in our regions brought many enemies to buy our own weapons. This taxed them as we handed out weapons for free to citizens. Since we have no major enemy force fighting for Tibet or other occupied regions this no longer applies. The current majority says that this is unacceptable to double-tax our citizens.
We do have, however, the issue of Import taxes. These are essentially a second round of sales tax applied only to foreign companies selling in our home markets. These companies are taxed by a combination of VAT and Import. Therefore, a rifle company in Spain selling in Frost’s America will be taxed 2% sales tax, while an American will be taxed 1%. This puts American companies at an advantage of 1% on top of any market conditions.
By increasing import taxes, we lower the supply of goods. This pressure is what prevents prices from flying through the roof. Libertarian thought would call for such tax increases, as it preaches false profits and individual freedom. What it really causes is stagnation and inflation of the domestic markets. This is economic oppression to the point of making our workers have weakened dollars and unable to purchase even a single loaf of bread. In Frost’s America, no Citizen should be left to starve.
As it stands, many industries have statistically been proven to be gloriously profitable. Therefore, our domestic industries do not need this false “protection” that the Libertarians claim an increase in Import taxes would bring. A call for investigation on these dissenters and any possible ownership of foreign companies is necessary.
As mentioned in our previous statement, the Consulate of the People’s Wealth will attempt to work with Congress to rework our budget. At current, there is plenty of room for improvement. Many programs need to be expanded, such as Arm Frost’s America and the Training Corps. Others need to be decimated, such as executive programs which do not adhere to the absolute authority of the High Chancellor.
The People’s Republican Military, headed by the glorious Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chairman Jankems, is a loyal entity to Frost’s America and shall not be affected by these budget cuts dramatically. However, undisciplined and dissent thought-filled programs will be investigated, reevaluated, restaffed, or cut entirely.
The Economic Council, despite the Libertarian takeover and hostage of our own eUS Forums, is beginning work on the Three Great Reforms as well as other projects. Included on the Council are new faces to both our own society and Congress alike, such as Jasper Signa and Tiamati.Magik.
The Economic Council, under the jurisdiction of the Consulate of the People’s Wealth, will form to set strict procedure in respects to how it operates and recommends policy to both the High Chancellor and Congress. It also will begin intense recording of information for future generations, as well as leading the current Reformation.
Also, I plan to make the Economic Council an elite group of cadres which orders Congress around. Stay tuned for progress.
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-Jewitt
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Jewinomics - Supporting a Frostier America
¡Viva la Revolucion!
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¡Viva la Revolucion!
Jew, I like you, but I'll be VERY surprised if you can find enough support in the congress for that income tax reduction.
The Libertarian Congressmen-in-Exile will gladly vote for a reduction of this illegitimate government's tax income. Viva La Counter Revolución!
~ CRoy
VAT taxes unfairly hit workers, while Import taxes hit international business owners (read the rich).
I dunno though, that's real life. Never mind me. In the game, economics works completely differently. No really.
Why I was just saying the same thing to DD about the income taxes the other day.
can't wait for this to be implemented
From the above article:
'The Economic Council, despite the Libertarian takeover and hostage of our own eUS Forums....'
Impeach Josh Frost! Hail the Resistnce Reply#8
'CHS, the eUS Forums really is being migrated to a new server 😛 Obviously you have been fooled by propaganda, as both sides are saying "The Revolution hacked the forums!" or "The Resistance hacked the forums!" All are lies, and I figured you would at least ask someone on the Global Moderation / Admin staff before believing them.'
So, which is it Jewitt? Either the Resistance hacked the forums or they are being moved, it can not be both at the same time.
CHS: I'll confirm that the forum stuff is just a joke. The forums are being moved to a new host, it doesn't have anything to do with the political fun we're having.
My bad for contributing to that rumor. I didn't really think anyone would take that seriously. The forums down hurts everyone equally. I know they're trying to get 'em back up as soon as they can.
@ CHS; It is both. This is a game. The forums are being moved and both sides are playing politics by accusing the other of inconveniencing the people. It's called roll-playing, something you don't understand.
Jewinomics - Supporting a Frostier America
¡Viva la Revolucion!
Dumb Emma Day 1,114, 14:08
'@CHS; It is both. This is a game. The forums are being moved and both sides are playing politics by accusing the other of inconveniencing the people. It's called roll-playing, something you don't understand.'
Oh, I understood that it was all role-playing, problem is that when I role-play back I am accused of being uninformed (Quote from Jewitt: 'All are lies, and I figured you would at least ask someone on the Global Moderation / Admin staff before believing them.'), it is all a 'joke' until the 'joke' is used against them and suddenly it is all serious. Either we are role-playing or we are not role-playing, seems I am just better at it than the 'elite' revolucionaries who started it all.
Jewinomics - Supporting a Frostier America
¡Viva la Revolucion!
CHS, you're being stubborn. It's an obvious joke and fun roleplaying. Roleplaying is fine as long as you are not ignoring game mechanics and bashing "elites" which don't exist. Especially when I recall a statement by you saying we "elect the same old politicians" when the President-elect was barely four months into the game - much younger than yourself. You're silly, so cut it out and go somewhere where you actually make sense. Like the eUK.
Seriously: The forums are being moved. Jokingly: They're being hacked. As I even said in my post which you quoted, I said all were lies and simple propaganda. It's fun. Get over it.
The counter-revolution greatly appreciates apparatchik Jewitt's cover up of our forum hack. You may be among the spared when we rise again. Viva La Counter Revolución!
~ C
Lower income taxes and keep the import taxes minimal.
Rather than trial-and-error with theoretical graphs and curves, hard numbers should be used to determine the rates. However, this would require that income and spending become transparent to the person(s) crunching the numbers, and I seriously doubt that ANY recipient agency of tax funds would be compliant.
Another reason to lower income tax - it royally hoses companies that pay workers to use boosters.
Example: I pay you $75/day to use the disco-ball booster daily when working. $50 goes toward the gold, the rest the employee keeps, right? No, 23% of that $75 ($17.25) goes to tax, leaving the worker with $7-$8.
This is seriously hurting our companies productivity versus foreign companies who have an income tax rate of 10%(+/-). PLUS, our workers are not gaining skill from boosters on a comparable level to their foreign counterparts.
@Dell, the donate button exists for a reason 😉
I support this message and the endeavor to which it pertains; as a member of the newly formed Economic Council I can assure all Citizens of the eUnion, irrespective of present "revolutionary" alignment, that the issues of Taxation and Appropriation of Treasury Funds Will be deliberated from all vantages to ensure the maximum benefit of our efforts is imparted Fairly throughout the Citizenry. Legislature, Millitary, and the Citizens of our glorious eUnion will prosper through the Relentless pursuit of efficiency as they pertain to the economic affairs of the eUSA.
Good stuff
Jewitt Day 1,114, 17:16
'CHS, you're being stubborn. It's an obvious joke and fun roleplaying. Roleplaying is fine as long as you are not ignoring game mechanics and bashing "elites" which don't exist. Especially when I recall a statement by you saying we "elect the same old politicians" when the President-elect was barely four months into the game - much younger than yourself. You're silly, so cut it out and go somewhere where you actually make sense. Like the eUK.'
It seems pretty obvious that are ignoring my response in Candor's article, because I am only stubborn when it comes to yahoos like you. How have I ignored 'game mechanics' exactly? In fact I used 'game mechanics' to further my role-playing and the 'frost regime' had a flipping coronary. This regime wouldn't be hiding something that would get the supreme chancellor 'impeached' would it? Not sure what you mean by '...President-elect was barely four months into the game - much younger than yourself.', josh frost is exactly 10 days short of being a year older than me, unless you mean someone -like gagah- bought josh frost citizen. However, being an 'elitist' has nothing to do with age and everything to do with the old 'attitude' of 'we are better then you' at playing the game.
Seriously: I am having a ton of fun watching you crap your pants. Jokingly: You need to take a chill pill and remember this is all a joke. As I have said before I am simply joining in with the role-playing fun, it's fun. GTFOI.
The Libertarian Congressmen-in-Exile will gladly vote for a reduction of this illegitimate government's tax income. Viva La Counter Revolución!
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Stuff > Gold
One Eye Sees All.
@SweetBags Unfortunately, the resign button also exists. You donate gold/cash, and they bolt with it. I've had it happen to me too many times. Plus, you have to keep meticulous track of donations, or wake up every morning before your workers to make the donations. That's more work than what it's worth for most people who live in a time zone where the server resets in the middle of the night
@Dell
I too have had this issue with "less than pure" workers; reccomendation is you pay slightly higher than union (job market scale) by roughly 3% to Loyal workers. Loyal cannot be stressed highly enough in this circumstance. The sequence I typically use is: they work for good money, if they give you a goldboost reimburse them per prior deliberations before the next day, and permit the cycle to continue based on economic factors within their subset of the marketplace. In this instance, neither employee nor employer get too far "ahead" of one another.
Additionally, employers are *NOT* expected to provide total reimbursement regarding goldboost, to do so would be to overlook the economic experience gained solely by the employee when using the goldboost options.
Alot of this began due to the tax arguement shortly before the implementation of V3; and while my stance on lower income taxes has not changed, my primary concern presently are migratory forces placing pressure on the economic stability of the eUnion as a whole.
@CHS regarding game mechanics and Elitism;
As I (Tiamati) stated in comment to Candor's post; both sides want the increased activity within our eUnion. This is not about the elites attempting to turn the eUS into a daycare state. Through increased activity our nation will become stronger and more unified; even an attempted impeachment would only serve as a divisive force, even if only temporarily. Think of it being akin to a plane taking off a runway, no need to threaten to depressurize the cabin... After all, you are on the plane with us CHS 🙂
CHS: I am not crapping my pants, I am actually trying to figure out if you're acting like an ignorant player or you truly are. Saying I am ignoring a post in an article I have not seen is just one of many statements you have made in an attempt to attack me, which I do not appreciate. The President I was referring to was not Frost, as nowhere did I say "the current President."
Again, you ignore what is convenient for you and bring up quotations of others out of context. I now realize why on the eUS forums you're ignored and/or mocked, it only took personal experience with you to see that.
Back to the discussion at hand, hopefully these measures will increase our individual abilities as well as providing ample discussion for the nation to finally have something to work towards 😃
@ CHS, Sorry I was mean in my comment. I was just moody at the time.
abolish taxes!
Ahhh... the good ole days...