California: PLEASE READ A Message From Your Congressman
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by AidenAstrup
Hello my fellow Californians! This is my weekly article stating how I voted and why. Remember, if you have any question about anything or need any help, feel free to PM me!
Tax Change Food
New
Old
Value added tax (VAT)
3%
3%
Import Tax
45%
99%
Income Tax
7%
7%
This proposal only lowered the import tax which is very important right now. There are many articles talking about the rising prices of food and putting cheaper foreign products is one way to drop the price which is why I vote😛
YES with 37 other congressman.
Tax Change: Diamonds
New
Old
Value added tax (VAT)
0%
0%
Import Tax
1%
45%
Income Tax
1%
5%
This proposal also dealed with the same problem as above, but with gifts. This lowered the income tax and import tax to the lowest amount allowed by the admins. I voted yes here, because the gifts market is fluctuating too much. I voted YES with 41 other congressman.
Citizen fee change from 5 USD to 8 USD
I voted no on this one and here is why. The value of the dollar needs to be strengthened and we can only do that by giving less money out. Second, new citizens can currently live days without a job, just living off of the 5 USD. Once they get a job, they are good to go. I voted NO along with 39 other congressman.
Minimum wage change from 1 USD to 2 USD
This was a horrible idea that would just hurt workers and companies alike. Companies are already operating at a loss, and this new wage would just make it worse. Workers can easily move up in skill and get a large pay raise. With 1 USD a day, they can live perfectly fine. I voted NO along with 36 other congressman.
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I agree with all your votes except for the citizen fee vote. The usd is not inflated despite popular belief. The reason people thought the usd was inflated was because of low prices, primarily in the Q1 market, caused by over production. The production was too high for the demand. There was so much production that people were running to lower the price of their product simply to get reed of it.
So to put it simply, people had too much extra money to spend because things such as Q1 food were dirt cheap. But, now that US population has increased, the market is no longer struggling to sell goods and prices have drastically increased.
Now we have another issue, and that is the productivity for low skilled citizens. This productivity results in them being able to rise only $1 a day. However, Q1 food prices are already over $1 per unit. Newer citizens need a bigger head start and more time to increase their skill so that they can earn enough to feed themselves, increasing the citizen free will definitely do that.
As a last note, lets not mistake an increase in the value of gold as a decrease in the value of the usd.
I disagree 😉 I believe that the USD is at good rate versus gold, but it could still be strengthened. Plus, if you can tell me a few good reasons new citizens need 3 USD, I would be glad to listen. It really isn't that much on an individual scale. Citizens won't be able to do that much with it, but for the government, an extra 3 USD per citizen with the average of 100 new citizens a day would cost 300 USD per day which is 9,000 USD per month.
I like how you are making government much more transparent... Thank You for this, I have been wondering about this and if you need help to get the voice out for what we have in the RL regarding votes, please let me know.
Also, I wonder what it takes to win a seat in Congress.
PM me, I can explain it 😉