You're right. I wasn't thinking about that, because it's really wealth
distribution, not taxes. I retract "It's death _and_ taxes". Maybe
next week.
-Aris
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
<p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Then, we need to rename the Tax Rate.
>
>
> On 10/22/2017 07:43 PM, Aris Merchant wrote:
>> Not apart from deregistration and administrative fees, neither of
>> which would normally be considered taxes.
>>
>> -Aris
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
>> <p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> We already have taxes.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/22/2017 07:39 PM, Aris Merchant wrote:
>>>> I submit the following proposal, and pend it for 1 AP.
>>>>
>>>> -Aris
>>>> ---
>>>> Title: It's death _and_ taxes
>>>> Adoption index: 1.0
>>>> Author: Aris
>>>> Co-author(s):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lines beginning with hashmarks ("#") and comments in square brackets ("[]")
>>>> have no effect on the behavior of this proposal. They are not part of any
>>>> rules
>>>> created or amended herein, and may be considered for all game purposes to
>>>> have been removed before its resolution.
>>>>
>>>> [I have yet to hear a reason why we can't have both supply reform and
>>>> spending reform. It's true that too much taxation will stop all
>>>> accumulation,
>>>> but my proposal should hopefully just provide another incentive to spend.
>>>> Frankly, while giving money meaning and giving people something to spend on
>>>> are nice, it's also important that people get paid. I've dropped the
>>>> inactivity
>>>> tax from this proposal.]
>>>>
>>>> Enact a rule, entitled "Taxes", power = 1.0, with the following text:
>>>>
>>>> The tax rate is a singleton switch, with possible values of integers
>>>> between
>>>> 0 and 25 (default 10). The tax rate can be set to any possible value in a
>>>> regulation promulgated by the Treasuror.
>>>>
>>>> An entity's tax amount is, at any given time, (max(ceil(T% of (S - 10)),
>>>> 0)),
>>>> where max is the maximum of its inputs, ceil is the operation of
>>>> rounding up
>>>> to the nearest integer, T is the tax rate, and S is that entity's shiny
>>>> abalance.
>>>>
>>>> A taxable entity is any entity that possesses shinies, except for Agora
>>>> and contracts exempt for sustenance payments.
>>>>
>>>> The Treasuror CAN, once per Agoran month, collect taxes by announcement.
>>>> E SHALL do so in the first week of each Agoran month. When taxes are
>>>> collected, for each taxable entity, that entity's tax amount in shinies
>>>> is
>>>> transferred to Agora.
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