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by Ivan Hat
Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to formally announce my return to the political scene in the Czech Republic!
After much deliberation and support from several members within my party, the army, and across the nation, I will be throwing my hand into the Presidential ring next election. For the time being I will be supporting our current President Red Duck because he has done a decent job so far and has enough support to remain so. But I desire the people to hear my case.
We're in a time of warfare in the international scene. The great global powers are siphoning our productivity by taking our workforce into their own wars and all we get out of it is the slight increase in fighting power. Under my presidency I will dramatically change the very nature of our military forces. Although we will remain a nationalist neutrality we will support creating our very own Mercenary Corps in line with our Czech Guard Red Duck has created.
This mercenary Corps will be run by the Head of State and everyone who is a part of it will be paid out of the national treasury. The salary will be fair and based on the activity of warfare around the world. Whenever there is a conflict we will send these forces into the side which comes to us first OR we have political and economic ties with. As far as our national army is concerned we MUST have a consistent force available. These forces will also be paid out of the national treasury but based on the fact that they remain within the borders of the Czech Republic. Moving Tickets will be provided to everyone in the National Army and the Mercenary Corps to anyone who signs up on our National Forums.
The economy is slowly recovering and we are making progress, but this isn't enough. Our political allies in the CRU party have been plunging our Import tax in an attempt to lessen the blow on prices from foreign markets. This is fine, I believe we've given enough of a break for our national companies to allow this dip. The problem lies within the AMOUNT of taxes that we are decreasing. We are going from high 90's to low 10's, this will most likely create a flood on the market of foreign goods.
Under my presidency I will call for an increase on Import taxes but no time in the near future should we return to anything about 80%.
Being a born Pakistani in this game it pains me to have lived in a nation where the food and home prices are so ridiculously high. When I joined the game in November of 2007 the price of 3 Star Food was under 15. Here the food has become as high as 30 or 40 within the past few weeks. It's low now but who's to say it wont return? What I plan to do for our own companies and organizations that voluntarily lower their prices to a national standard they will receive WEEKLY bonuses from the government! If companies wish to do otherwise that is up to them but I will no longer tolerate a nation that is slowly starving to death because of high food prices. The same goes for homes. I bought my 3 Star home in Pakistan for 150. A ONE STAR HOME IN CZECH REPUBLIC costs 600 CZK!! This cannot go on. I want our citizens to go out and find people who have no jobs and to point them to the Housing industry! We MUST make Food and Housing affordable in order to make our nation prosperous!
The same goes for Hospitals and Self Defense. I will put as much time and money into a national account for us to buy 3 Star or higher Hospitals or Self Defense Systems for each and every one of our national regions!
The last time my Presidency was cut short by Shane and Parrot's loyalists who cut their profits and ran to South Korea, Germany, and other parts of the world. Ladies and Gentlemen I am coming to you now with a set plan for our nation. Please listen to my words. Thank you and God Bless the Czech Republic.
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BRAVO! About to time!
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Watching the situation in the Czech Republic with one eye- hope to return some day as well. Good luck Ivan! whether you remember me or not 🙂
PS: The answer is a higher VAT to take CZK out of circulation strengthening the currency and lowering prices.
Do you intend to run on the 5th of March or the 5th of April?
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I fully support your mercenary idea. Almost a foreign legion, no?
As for the economic suggestion, I'm not a fan of the idea of government subsidies, but certainly something needs to be done.
Good to see that you are adopting some of the proposals Nezávislost has been advocating. You can be sure that our congressmen will support you where our aims are commen.
FK
How exactly do you want to lower the prices?
Im, as a international trade student (czech guy studying in Ireland) , finding it really difficult with protectionalism as you propose (80% import taxes). We have to equalize our currency and wages to get competetive, and set taxes around 60% LATER (afther equalizing).
Lubos: I want to lower the prices by persuading my own countrymen to do so with their own money. I would set up a national price margin for which I expect companies to follow. If I became president I would set up a thread on our national forums where business owners and organizations can sign up to make it easier to keep track of. And as long as companies keep to these set standards they will have an automatic subsidy from the government.
As far as taxes are concerned I WILL propose raising them but never above the mark that I mentioned, we've been strangling the foreign market for too long; it had its purpose when we started the measure but it needs to be changed now.
Yarick: I'm not a real fan of them either but in my opinion this country has had a long enough chance without them to prove itself in this sector. The time has come for dramatic change. So far the government, under Red Duck's, Vaclav's, my previous presidencies, and every other president, has been a Laissez Faire policy. In other words "Hands Off" where the government puts a set goal in place and expects everyone else to follow suit. Under my plan the government actually steps in an helps out. Doesn't mean it will be running the Economic sector but it WILL help it in the right direction. Our people are starving and losing Wellness because they can only afford 1 or 2 Star food and have no home.
I have a 3 star home and buy 1 star food and I'm barely keeping a STABLE wellness. Things Need to Change.
Ivan:
to the economic matters, as I understand it you will give companies money as long they will lower the prices of products. But in my opinion this cannot be done for long time. You will increase taxes to give companies money to provide cheaper products, but what about salaries? If you raise taxes people will get even less money (but the will be able to buy cheaper products), if you will not tax people you will not get enough money to fund the company support.
Or am I missing the point?
I think that we have to start with increasing competitiveness of our market by government involved in money market combined with the right import taxes. This should increase the import and by this force our companies to lower the wages and prices, the government have to just keep eye on our market to be prepared to take action of our market or the importers will start to suffer too much.
Whenever there is a conflict we will send these forces into the side which comes to us first.
- What? So Czech republic will be just a bunch of mercenaries fighting for the highest offer? No, if we are going to do this, we´ll need to think about who we are fighting for and against.
This mercenary Corps will be run by the Head of State...
- I don´t agree with this, you´re giving the President virtually absolute power over military forces. They need to be run by more people, 3 or 4.
About the food problem, I don´t know what you´re talking about. New citizens usually work in Q1 companies, and they need maximally Q2 food. I did the math and Q1 and Q2 food is only a little bit expensive than in other countries. As for the Q3 food, that is about 1/3 more expensive than in other countries, and you can remove that by inviting foreign companies to export to CR, or by paying companies money, which is bad idea. Why? I´ll give you an example: You´ll pay one company money to have low cost food. What will other companies do? They will adjust prices accordingly. So, in the end you´ll be paying pointlessly money to 1 company, which will make prices very low, maybe even under manufacturing cost. Other companies will be bankrupt, and the company you´re paying will have a monopol.
As for the houses, people can buy that on the eRepublik forums, where they´ll get the best prices, Q1 House for 3 Gold, Q2 for 5.5, etc.
Nice article, but I have a little another political opinions than you... .
I'd still like to know when you intend to run for president.
I am, of course, with Jura on this policy of the Czech mercenary force. I don't think we should be paying our soldiers but we should try and partake in the "friendly" wars across the world.
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interesting speach Ivan
Acctualy, it would be very useful if this company will give products on market.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/company/food-cz-85301
The American Head of State is the Commander in Chief, this does not mean he is the one running all the shows everywhere. Obviously we'll need some decision making when it comes to who we support.
As for paying our soldiers it is one of the better proposals out there. We need some kind of nationalism in this country. There's political unity but everything else is up in the air. By paying our forces we give them more incentive to stay and/or follow orders. If we want to get anywhere in this world we need this or a similar policy.
Jura: The point IS to bring prices down, that's one of the ways I see it actually working at this point. We have an inflation going on right now and we have plenty of money to spare. For the time being money being spend to keep prices down will be an investment for the future.
It also sounds like you don't support our housing industry Jura. "Go Somewhere else and buy it." So much for our own market's huh? We only have two resources in Czech and your proposal is squashing 50% of it. We need to support the Housing market even more so than the Food market.
I'm thinking that a mercenary force would indeed make us a wealthier nation if we do it right. I also am finding you to be making several good points
I know what the point is, I just don´t know it´s needed, prices for food are quite good, maybe little more expensive than in other countries. As for the houses - I used to own a housing company in Czech Republic, but I´ve sold it because you really cant make a profit in this country. There are just a few Czech that are active and need a house, and they know that they can buy a house a lot cheaper on the forums than through the market.
This will be a very difficult plan to orchestrate. I hope that you have a good cabinet that will aid you in this endeavor