My Political Vision
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Ivan Hat
This was taken from a previous comment in my last article. I hope it sheds some light on what I wish to achieve.
But if we think of it this way, we set up a first come/first serve basis. We focus specifically on quarter 1 and quarter 2 companies. These companies which can barely function in the environment we have set up now. We bring these companies under our wing and advertise for them. We funnel workers into them and we Protect these companies until they mature and can become viable members of our economic state. Once they have we let them go, if they flourish they flourish, if they fail they fail. The least we can say is we're doing the country service by adding competition into the housing and food markets. Which, in turn, give us a standard on lower prices.
As for our military might I understand we cannot become a truly powerful nation physically. You are 100% correct that power is based on the people we have available. Look what happened to Sweden and Norway once the upgrade hit! What I am saying is that with a powerful and specialized mercenary corps we can focus on benefiting others with our MINIMAL strength; a small amount of highly trained, highly experienced Czech soldiers that is funded by the government. They fight for others and come back, they get paid to do the same later. They gain strength, we gain security and a valuable function we can actually achieve!
You are suggesting that we give up and accept the fact that we are weak. We are now 41st(!) the last time I checked. We need drastic change to try and make something of ourselves. If we can't become militarily strong then we need to become politically and economically so.
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What I also want to announce is my complete support of the ESA. A political and economical organization that works between worldly powers for the greater prosperity of European nations. Specifically smaller countries like ourselves. We gain a greater security by signing up for this and it is imperative that we do so. I have mentioned before that we are a militarily weak nation and with a small population it becomes easy for a political takeover. This organization helps protect us from these heinous crimes.
It has also come to my attention that eIsrael and eGreece are in desperate need of support. Under my administration I will draft bills for congress where we will give aid and begin to set up trade priorities with these nations, ALONGSIDE our current friends Poland and Slovakia. We need to create a unity with our smaller brethren and now is the time to do so!
I must also state that if I am elected I will personally step down as Party Leader of the United Slavs party. I have served as this party's leader since August of last year and it will become a liability for me if I become the next President of the Republic. I hope this comes as good news to both my opponents and supporters.
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Sorry Ivan, but I have to strongly disagree with your protectionist point of view. If I understand correctly, you want to subsidise inland companies. But on the other hand in your statement you put stress on wellness of the citizens. So here is the thing: Subsidies and relatively closed market (because of high tax) reduce the volume of competition on the market, thus increasing the prices (I mean this statement as a fact, approximately two months ago we had stg. like "food crisis" that was relatively effectively solved by reasonable lowering the food import tax). And that increase in price harms the consumers as their relative wage lowers. So while "aiding" some companies (respectively their owners), everyone gets less for the hard work.
I would like to also point out that because of competition and the lack of work force the wages increase (I have observed this for some time now).
The way to the prosperity definitely ain`t cobbled with protectionism. That is my point of view.
You can't just let an industry that you have nurtured all of a sudden die, thats a loss of jobs and a huge blow to the economy. No we need to find a way to keep companies alive, and if they reach below a certain point, then our government props them back up again.
Also if you want to aid such ventures as a Czech National Guard, then our bank needs a lot more money that would come from things like Income taxes, but by increasing those taxes, you decrease the strength of our economy, a Catch-22 that is very impossible to deal with.
Protectionism works Slava by setting standards for all of the companies involved in the program. they will continue to recieve support every week if their prices remain where we set them. WE set the price standard and WE give out the money. If they don't want to do it our way then they don't have to. The same goes for advertising, worker finding, cash incentives etc.
When the government actually both works and works for the companies its a win/win. The treasury might lose some weight but if it means increased wellness and productivity.
Finally one wise man that want to support home companies. I like this Ivan. Atleast you see this great problem, which all want to resolve with "invisible hand of market" 😃
Voted...
Right now, we have a healthy competition going here, all vital goods are relatively cheap and there are at least 2 companies in each branch. Well, except housing companies, but they won´t do business here because no one here wants to buy a house. And when someone really needs a house, he has some experience with eRepublik and buys it abroad.I, when I worked in housing business, I´ve also sold houses abroad and not on czech market.
You are selling houses for 6 gold a piece last time I've checked. How is that fair for ANY consumer. It's obvious you dont want a true housing market because if there are 1 star homes on the market for anything less than 600 gold you wouldnt be making much money would you?
2 companies in each branch doesn't cut it. they can only have so many workers. Stop trying to blindly fight me
Nezavislost is happy to see their concern for support to smaller nations has found its way to the heart of our platform - in particular the proposals for strong support and friendship to eIsrael and eGreece.
We are happy to announce our endorsement for your candidature as President.
Read here for more information:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/our-nomination-for-president-read-and-vote--741750/1/20
Franz Kafka
(Party President)
Ha,ha,ha. Okay, firstly I want to say that I do not own a housing company in Czech Republic anymore.
Secondly, let me tell you something about prices of Q2 houses abroa😛 USA - 9 Gold, Romania 12.2 Gold, Indonesia 8.5 Gold. I was selling my Q2 House at a price of 6 Gold, which is very good offer. Furthermore, if you look at the prices of Q1 houses, you´ll find that houses in most of the countries cost about 0.5-2 Gold more. So 600 CZK ( 4.8 Gold ) is a very good price for Q1 House.
I dont see why wehave to bend to everyone else's rules Jura. If we offer lower prices and manage to give export licenses to our companies, wouldn't you say we'd have more business?
No. Why? We have quite high salaries in CZE and most people don´t work every day. That said, companies exporting products would not prosper, because there is bigger competition in other countries = lower prices than in czech republic. So if the company would set the prices so they could sell something, they would´nt even cover manufacturing costs - country would have to give them money, which would be throwing treasury´s money away.
Support of housing is a bad idea - simply because there are few people who would buy a house in Czech Republic.
The bottom line is - government shouldn´t interfere with market, because a) there´s no need for that b) it wouldn´t work.
I will take your words Jura but I still believe you are wrong.
Agree with Jura52. Just your ideas is road to hell... . I will after post some longer post, why i don´t support it... .
I don't support Ivan Hat.