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Am Yisrael?
U plan to destroy Israel like CROY wanted
בוגד!

We don't have any raw materials and houses, weapons and MT industries are pretty dead. The only active industry we have is food and you going to kill it too.

With imported food we will have less domestic companies and less jobs for Israelis. Things are getting much better, please don't ruin it.

High protective Taxes for a small country with no natural resources is the most backwards idea ive ever heard. We need to create competition and investment if we want prices lowered.

If our MT and weapons industries are dead then why maintain the same policies?

The current policies are what are killing industry not reform.

Increased competition leads to lower prices. This is Basic Economics 101. You cannot tax away foreign companies and expect a country as small as ours to be able to pick up the slack.

We need competition Zaib, not protection. The government giving away money for "government" companies doesn't help anyone in the long run. It only makes for a dependent population that cannot support itself.

Let's try out the new taxes. It couldn't be worse than what we have now.

why do we side with eden and not phoenix?

Voted. There is no country that has anything good derived from a closed economy. It is not working in RL why it should work in VL?

Flint Flintovski, the voice of reason of eIsrael.

I believe you are mistaken, Ender. 😛

Seriously though, an open economy is beneficial.

@Flint
It could be because of our many incidents with Turkey, who is a part of Phoenix. Do we want to side with the people who have helped us, or the people who tried to take us over? I wonder.....

im just asking.. no criticism intended.. but wouldnt we be safe from turkish attacks if we were in phoenix?

Flintovski,

Considering PEACE/Phoenix's history of aggressive action and threats of violence against its own members who express even the slightest bit of dissent, as happened in the history of Japan and France, the honorable dealings Israel has had throughout its history with Greece, Romania, Poland, Croatia, and the United States, and the fact that Greece recently wiped Turkey off the map, I believe Israel is affiliating with the right superpower.

It is good to see a progressive and open economic model is in the make for Israel. Looks familiar 🙂

Lowering the import tax will indeed lower the prices for food.
The everlasting story of shopowners who complain it will ruin their business are apparently on the wrong track anyhow.

With current low salaries in Israel, the businessowners should not have Israel as main market, but should be exporting to other countries, plus lowering the importtax drives them to more efficiency.
Only relying on one or two markets is bad entrepeneurship.

In the short run it will lower the prices, but in the long run it will also lower the wages and take out many of companies out of business. We are not USA and we can't afford to have low import taxes.

In the strange event that salaries will drop; if it ever happens, business owners should be expanding their company. with export to other countries.

If a businessowner cant withstand low importtaxes, he shouldnt be owning a business.

Plus a quick overview at the current market, it's close to obvious that that current companies are creating a cartel, and are not competing with each other.

No hebrew no reading

Gavin, send me your posts before you make them public-I'll translate them for you (and foranyone else that want his posts to be in Hebrew too).

Noam