Down to business again
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by Vincent Garibaldi
We've recently lost 2 valuable members of our little community. Antimo and Darkforge have both left. I wish them luck, and hope they'll come back.
That said, I can't say that events in Thailand now and before haven't made me consider doing the same, I am however an addict. (Admitting you have a problem is the 1st step of course, but frankly F*** those next 11)
Election Preparation:
Well, we face a serious PTO attempt this election. I mean, more serious than normal. I will have more instructions for congressmen soon. Please help me with them when the time comes to protect our country, or at least not hand over more of it than we must. 24-48 hours before the elections, I will need 2-3 proposals. So congressmen, please keep that in mind. I will explain more later, or you can PM me, or find me on irc.
Now then, first of all, all people who wish to run for congress should PM Travis Byrd. This includes both PUP and Jedi, and whoever the hell else too.
(http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/2012152)
Also, could someone accept Gates Shellinger?
(http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1228466)
Also, all others who wish to receive citizenship should PM Albert Neurath.
(http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1226337)
Taxes:
Alright, seriously. Tax debates are officially over. The OFFICIAL tax plan now can be found here:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/taxes-proposal-v2-1089389/1/20
The tax plan is
Income: 5%
Import Tax: 10%
VAT: 1%
for all finished good companies. Congressmen can start proposing these whenever they like. Please vote yes to any proposal matching these rates.
Government training company: There are Raw material companies recruiting skill 0 citizens. This is bad for the economy.
This is a two part debate.
1. Should we have a government training company?
2. What should it be?
I personally favor a weapons company, but if you think differently, please comment, publish an article, write me a PM, or post on the forum.
Also, sign up for the military. For ML's sake...
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dEJwbW5pZGRxR2VJWjVqNFA4dlVlY3c6MA
There is a war in Australia (our ally) if you haven't noticed. Sign up and you will go fight, on our dime. (Don't get me wrong, I love the Brozilians as well, but we owe Australia)
In closing, please pray to Michael Lewis in this time of peril. He is the Messiah, and as he said, "I"LL REPORT YOU!!!!", and so he did so often to our enemies. (PRAISE ML! HEIL LEWIS!)
Always remember what we're fighting for.
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I have been waiting for this article. Really, I am eager to see something completed, and this something is the tax reform. While we are passing the laws for finished goods (and construction), I want to complete the discussion on the raw material taxes, too. My last comment was: The biggest open question is now how high we want to tax the income of land workers: 50% or a little lower?
If I do not read any comments until tomorrow, we go with 50%.
I have already informed a few babies via PM that they have chosen the wrong industry to start their work life here. A government training company can help, too. It will however most probably constantly operate at loss. I think that we can leave this to the private industry, too. We can start an auction: Every company owner may give a bid how much THB he requests in return for the service to always (= at least once a day or twice a day, we must specify this parameter) have the highest skill 0 job offer on the market. The manufacturing company with the lowest bid wins this contract for one month. Maybe next month we will be giving such a contract to a construction company.
If we make a government company, then it should be a weapons company.
1. From the theoretical evaluation, the overcapacity of all other goods will be growing at a higher rate.
2. Having a company that stores 100 or 200 Q1 weapons has an additional value for our national security. The value is not that big, but at least we can use these weapons very quick and do not need to check world market prices, send an org to the cheapest country, and purchase there.
Another remark: I accepted Gates Shellinger' citizenship request.
Nice, informative article. I have been missing such in eThailand lately.
I say tax the income of land workers with 50%, as suggested by Thingol.
I agree, until we get a High Resources Region, there is no region to encourage newbs to become Land Workers. Tax the hell out of it.
I am not big on the idea of government run companies, unless it is for the military.
If the government has to own recruitment companies, I suggest gift ones or ticket ones, gift/tickets produced will be used for newbies wellness or to move them in Central Thai.
I agree with the thought that the training company should be weapons, in Sing we have a q1 food company as a training company, and currently we have a stockpile of 3000. In addition to this largely useless stockpile, we're not actually "losing money". Some babies join the game, choose a skill 0 offer, and then never leave until you PM them to get a better job. I had some skill 4 people working for 1 sgd at Singapore City Food when I got control of it. Basically, the problem with that is that you can overproduce the market with food, where a weapons company would be able to stockpile for the military and help it train, etc.
We are still not ready with implementing the tax reform. I am going to continue this today, and I ask other congress members to join me.