[Appleby] Economics and Chocolate Coins for all
Day 1,137, 09:27
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by Sir Humphrey Appleby
Good afternoon Britain, and a very happy New Years Eve!
As promised, I have completed my economic manifesto after advice from several of the country’s greatest economists; and submit them for your entertainment. You can find my domestic manifesto here, and my declaration of intent here. I hope you’ve enjoyed them so far.
Don't worry! There is a tl;dr version at the bottom.
Your chocolate coin!
But why is our economy important? Well, the military and political modules of the game may be slightly more interesting, but at the end of the day – wars are won by better arms and jobs are lost by bad currency. A strong economy is the key to a tougher and healthier nation; as well as the foundations of our might on the world stage. It is thus vital that the next term oversees a ‘firm hand on the tiller’ and careful guidance for a prosperous nation.
Current Minister of Finance, Mr. Thatcher
Ministry of Finance
My position when it comes to the strength of the GBP is that it should remain flexible in order to reflect the changing needs and demands of our economy. A currency either too high or too low is, obviously, quite damaging for business and I am very happy with our current Minister’s work on the matter. I feel that deliberately trying to force our currency down would hurt imports that are necessary in our economy, and the benefits that devaluation would bring to exports would not cover it.
The MoF and I will be listening to any economic grievances from any entrepreneur on the matter of the economy, and we will work to allow a fast response to meet their needs (if necessary). Articles and guides will be published on how to use the Money Market, as well as various tips of the value of GBP and gold. I am quite sure that Thatcher is more than capable of conceding to even the most reasonable of requests
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Finally, I will increase income tax to 20% and reduce VAT to 1% across the board. Wages are increasing in the country, and thus a majority of our tax income derives from it. The increase in income tax will give us more money to fund MPPs and other state-funded projects, and the lowering of VAT will allow goods to be bought and sold far more competently on the markets. It will also allow communes to pay slightly more towards the upkeep of their country. This should handle the issue of inflated wages and produce cheaper goods for the nation to enjoy.
Naturally, Import Taxes will be modified in reflection to this; which brings me onto the Ministry of Trade…
The British Pound.
Ministry of Trade
One of the main failings of this Ministry was the ‘Small Businesses’ plans of helping small business managers in developing their companies and assisting them into the market. The system was complicated, wasn’t advertised nearly enough and the only people interested were the people in the Ministry of Trade themselves. I feel a great more achievement can be made by simply creating more guides and articles on the basics on how to run a business. As no financial support has been given to this scheme despite former promises it would; I feel it’s mainly education we should work on here. I expect the Ministry of Trade to be working with the Ministry of Media with this.
Additionally, as stated somewhere above, the recalibration of taxes would mandate a thorough report in ways to modify income tax in order to defend eUK businesses from excessive foreign imports. I am confident that the skilled staff in this Ministry will be able to do this fairly quickly; especially in calculating the additional income we would receive from these changes in taxes. I have already seen a couple of sums by Blag, a former Minister of Trade, and he has indicated the benefits that this recalibration would give. Thatcher has supported it as well.
Despite our 25% bonus for Iron, this industry is near unprofitable with far cheaper weapons from China and Hungary. Raising taxes for Iron would make weapons manufacturing in Britain completely unprofitable, thus, I shall not be raising taxes on this product.
Happy Iron is happy
tl;dr
-Increase Income tax to 20% across the board
-Reduce VAT to 1% across the board
-Flexible GBP
-More articles explaining the economy
-More articles advising how to run your business
-More research into the best way of taxes.
And that’s it from me, I shall see you shortly with my Military and Foreign Affairs Manifesto
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Yours,
Sir Humphrey Appleby and Daniel Thorrold
Prime Ministerial and Deputy Prime Ministerial candidates.
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Bloody capitalists again.
You missed out a piece of code there.
Oh, thanks.
You're welcome
> As promised, I have completed my economic manifesto after advice from several of the country’s greatest economists
> People vote your economics manifesto for you.
Do you actually understand economics?
Not merely as much as I'd like - hence why I have gathered advise to make a focused attack on the countries economic problems.
Come on, you gotta vote for less Tax!
@deVillefort
-Increase Income tax to 20% across the board
>Finally, I will increase income tax to 20% and reduce VAT to 1% across the board. Wages are increasing in the country, and thus a majority of our tax income derives from it.
Ok check the job markets wages are going down. And, is it really that necessary that we raise the taxes? Don't we have a large enough income already? I believe Tatcher would have warned us already a long while ago if we lived above our standards.
Raising taxes is ABSOLUTLY not necessary. And do I need to remind you that as a right wing party you should promoting lowering taxes??
>I feel a great more achievement can be made by simply creating more guides and articles on the basics on how to run a business.
Some do exist. (thinking of mine that just needs an update)
>Additionally, as stated somewhere above, the recalibration of taxes would mandate a thorough report in ways to modify income tax in order to defend eUK businesses from excessive foreign imports
Are you really going to raise taxes from everywhere? As a eUK Business owner I believe that this will improve my competitivity true. But please ! DO **** RESEARCH WORK BEFORE ANNOUCING THOSE KIND OF THINGS !
I now cases that are making 2-3 gold a day with a Q1. Higher import taxes : even more profits for them. Not always profitable as wages will not follow (IMO).
>Flexible GBP
Go take a class of economy 1O1. You'll see. Flexible currencies are not that well appreciated around the world and I doubt that you are talking about an intermediary system that IS the most optimal solution.
FYI as Tatcher might not have informed you : the most profitable is indeed a flexible currency, but the problem is that you can kill your economy by doing such things. Having a raise from 0.023 to 0.03 in 1 or 2 days IS DEADLY. Be very very carefull if you promote such things.
And to point out once again : you say better research for taxes, but at the end you say what you will defend... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Contradiction?
AMAZING!, Tup using dirty tactics again i see
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"It will also allow communes to pay slightly more towards the upkeep of their country."
WRONG & CLEARLY BIASED.
Nothing like a right wing gombeen to set you up for the new year.
Has anyone nocticed that the critism is all coming from the left wing
anyway Sir Humphrey is a worthy candidate for CP and will do good for the country
@Painkiller :
Tell me the critics made are wrong and I will support this manifesto. Does it really matter where critics come from when they are right?
Apotygma your ctitics are wrong. There, now you can support his manifesto.
Then explain to me why I am wrong, because now you are just making a fool out of yourself because you can't even find 1 argument to prove me wrong.
Congress change taxes, not the CP. You can only advise and propose, you need congress to approve the changes.
True Jhorlin, but you as CP you can propose it to congress and push it gently.
Apotygma:
You are relatively new back in eUK, so you may not have noticed me saying WE ARE SPENDING TOO MUCH every 2 minutes. We are balancing budgets now, but overall we haemorrhage money. We save up for a while, then idiots from every party decide to invade this country or that country, so we are forced to increase spending to get anywhere. Or we have to spend hundreds of gold tanking to defend London, or saving an ally. Last month during our invasion for example we paid around 1000 gold for our MPPs, and hundreds more tanking to stay on the map. You may also have noticed our military was utterly stolen, which we had to pay to replace. Each time we do any of this it undoes literally weeks of hard saving, so yes, consider this another warning that the eUK lives beyond its means.
Another point- a flexible currency means not obsessively compulsively clinging to one benchmark price, which is literally impossible to do without, yep, spending loads of gold. Plunging and rocketing changes in exchange rate, eg from 0.022 to 0.03, are not what Appleby or I mean when we say flexible.
Tatcher :
About the currency you are right, if you mean that it is fine. The thing is that it is not what transpires from SHA's manifesto. I know what you stand is on it and I know that you know what you are talking about. SHA not IMO
And relatively new is a hard word. I have been in the for nearly a year now. Not always been active on the forums but I am pretty damn well aware of what happened during all that time. I know that companies where stolen, the whole supplier changes where made because of it (felt it in the army). I know MPP's cost money and I know saving London involved a lot of money I was there to.
The thing is that I have never seen a financial report. I hope I missed it saying how much we were over our budget every month or if it is only due to extraordinary costs. If I missed it, sorry, if I didn't could you give us one for congress? That way at least MP's know if we are spending to much or not, we are the once deciding over taxes.
glcuk!
lol