Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-20 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 00:33, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > On 5/19/2020 5:08 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > My biggest concern here is that the budgets will get set wrong, we'll > > run out of money for something important half way through the quarter, > > and then

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-19 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/19/2020 5:08 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > My biggest concern here is that the budgets will get set wrong, we'll > run out of money for something important half way through the quarter, > and then suddenly there will be no pay for officers or judges or > whatever for the

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 5:06 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On 5/19/2020 4:45 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:26 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > >> 3. This far too much mess to do monthly IMO, you'd barely sort out one > >> before it was time to do the next.

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-19 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/19/2020 4:45 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:26 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> 3. This far too much mess to do monthly IMO, you'd barely sort out one >> before it was time to do the next. Might I suggest quarterly? > > > I don't understand why. I think the confusion

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:26 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 5/17/2020 10:38 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > The Prime Minister's Budget Regulations may set the tax rate, R, > > a rational percentage value defaulting to

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-19 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/17/2020 10:38 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > The Prime Minister's Budget Regulations may set the tax rate, R, > a rational percentage value defaulting to 0%. The Registrar's Budget > Regulations may set the personal withholding, W, an integer defaulting to > twice

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-19 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:02 PM James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > > The most important point is to make it so the system can realistically > > and consistently raise the funds it needs to operate. In the past, > > we've sometimes created such systems without doing that. In the past, > >

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-18 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 6:02 PM James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 05:40, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > wrote: > > Here's a proto I tossed together in an evening for a budget system. > > This could, in theory, be adopted now and wouldn't particularly do > >

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-18 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 05:40, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > Here's a proto I tossed together in an evening for a budget system. > This could, in theory, be adopted now and wouldn't particularly do > very much apart from allowing for funding of special projects (though > it would

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 10:40 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > In the fourth Eastman week of each Agoran Month, the Treasuror CAN once, > by announcement, Appropriate Lost Property, transferring a specified number > of coins no greater than the Lost and Found Department's

DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a proto I tossed together in an evening for a budget system. This could, in theory, be adopted now and wouldn't particularly do very much apart from allowing for funding of special projects (though it would allow for a somewhat absurd amount of funding; I imagine most of it would go to

DIS: Proto - Budgets

2009-12-06 Thread Charles Walker
With thanks to G. for eir related Historian's Corner a while back: {{ Budgets (AI = 2) Enact a new Rule: A budget is a document defined by the Rules and maintained by an office. An office only has a budget if the Rules state that it does. A budget's scope contains one or more

Re: DIS: Proto - Budgets

2009-12-06 Thread comex
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@googlemail.com wrote:      During an election for an office which has a budget, the      candidates SHALL publish a proto-budget for that office; this      proto-budget is invalid unless it would be a valid budget for      the

Re: DIS: Proto - Budgets

2009-12-06 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Charles Walker wrote: Bug: Publish a proto-budget right before the end of the voting period.  With some of the budgets (e.g. Termination List) that could get ugly. Solution: Limit proto-budgeting to during the nomination period and the first 4 days of the voting period.