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Ladies and gentlemen, I come to you with a question, and an answer.

How can we enrich our treasury and economy?

We have been for quite some time, a minor nation on the political map overall, and we don't have much in the way of resources. 2 food resources and an iron source. It is already said that making low quality weapons and food aren't really a good economic state presently.

Inflation has taken the gold up o 200, and our treasury makes maybe double that per day in taxes. Meanwhile, prices are low in the market, even for products we create here. This, to me, is both good and bad. That said, I am confused why we have next to no import taxes, especially when our governements financial tax base is so weak.

So I propose a few ideas, if there are congressmen or ministers interested enough to pursue them:

Raise the import taxes on food raw materials and for food in general
-- This will stimulate our weaker economy by cutting out some of the foreign competition. If we raise the overall price of our raw materials and food, fewer foreigners will sell here, and our own inundated market will be able to food in greater quantity while having to compete more advantageously with the volume from the foreign market. Gone would be the days of a random foreigner dropping 10k food on the market without paying much in taxes. To see what kind of impact such a policy could make, even if we assumed a 25% increase in the taxes, even if it was Q1 food we could make 150 jpy in taxes from such an offer, not to mention should said seller not return, thats 10k less for the local seller behind him to compete with.

If we were to increase the import tax on food, one has but to look at the market to see that it is absolutely dominated by foreigners. Q1-3 are strongly inhabited by our own sellers, but Q4 and up are owned essentially by foreigners who are beating our own people's prices. If even the import tax was raised 25% the government could easily add a monstrous increase in jpy to the treasury from just the higher quality sections. I'm looking at some offers existing now that could add as much as 300, especially since none of the max Quality sellers are ours, and only 1 of the Q4 at the time of this writing. We could bluntly make a killing, and I imagine that they would keep selling here because, although profit would be diminished, there simply is a market here to sell goods that would basically lanquish in storage otherwise, even if the margin is lower.

Now with such an increase, it goes without saying that the volume of the market will decrease, but that in itself could be a good thing. That just means that we could secure a higher percentage of the supply within our own nation, using the income from the Import tax to expand our own manufacturing.


This could be us

And then there's a more radical idea I have about how the gov orgs themselves could make the nation money
Price fixing and regulation, government in-entity in the general market:
In theory the government itself could purchase goods to clear parts of the market and make profit after raising the taxes. It could even set a regulation minimum price on the goods.

This would occur by the government purchasing all offers below a set accepted price, then re-selling the goods purchased, gaining the tax profit(especially if the seller is foreign) and then re-selling the goods for the price it bought them as a local seller. (for instance, gov buys at .06 from foreigner with higher import tax, say 25%. Government picks up say, 3000 Q1 food, gets the import tax, then government sells Q1 food at .06, making back the money it lost to the foreigner in the initial transaction.)

The government itself could replace most of the sellers on the market making a profit if it were more active in the market. If the government were to buy up all the standard accepted price of a market (for instance, .06 for Q1, .11 for Q2), it will harvest all the tax from the initial transactions at that price. Then it can replace all the sellers, re-selling at that price to make back the money it lost acquiring the goods in the first place, and at a massive quantity of an offer. This has the double benefit of establishing a price ceiling, as no one will buy above the governments offer until the offer itself is used up. Individuals could try and beat the governments price, sure, but should all previous offers be taken, the government price could end up as the ceiling of as high a price can go, since it will become obvious you can't sell at a higher price than the governments lower offer. (people won't pay more for the same good).

Essentially, the government could become similar to a benevolent plato-bot.

This has the double benefit in that there can be actual research data gathered in monitoring the change of the governments supply in that offer, and we could begin to see just how much is consumed in a given market over time, based on the changes since the governments last resupply of said offer, either by buying out lower-priced goods (which is automatically a profit for the government as taxes don't affect it), or contractually paying eJapanese suppliers through a type of program, since donations are recordable.

If these ideas should start to fail, or be too difficult to implement, we could always just de-regulate the market or return taxes to their previous values, but I ask you, why don't we try it? Could this work? Let's at least discuss it


Lets discuss it because this is how pretty much how I imagine we order alcohol at a bar at our current budget