I intend to deregister Ienpw III without objection.
I intend to deregister Bayushi without objection.
I intend to deregister ProofTechnique without objection.
Shall we find out?
(No harm meant if any of you are around, I probably won't even go
through with this I'm more just curious)
(Everyone else seems to be active from my check, so...)
On 2017-10-21 10:09, Aris Merchant wrote:
The inactivity tax is necessary because we have several players who
cannot be deregistered due to objections, and because it serves a
different purpose than the wealth tax. The wealth tax is primarily to
disincentivse hoarding, and will only bring in really huge amounts of
money if the secretary increases it as an emergency measure. Inactive
players don't hoard because they think it makes economic sense, they
hoard because they're not paying attention. Having them keep large
amounts of money means that it isn't actively moving through the
economy, which means it's not doing anyone any good. I might consider
setting untaxed amount to be derived from the floating value, but I
rather like the simplicity of it depending on as few variables as
possible.
-Aris
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Madeline <[email protected]> wrote:
Is the inactivity tax really necessary? Shinies of deregistered players
already don't count towards the supply limit. I'm alright with the idea of a
wealth tax, but you might want to tie your shiny values to the supply limit
rather than hardcoding them so that it's futureproof. (Something like supply
limit / two times the playercount as the minimum should work?)
On 2017-10-21 09:53, Aris Merchant wrote:
Our economic troubles have gone on long enough. Printing money has
been rejected, despite it being what we had intended to use if we ever
run out. If we don't want to print money, we _need_ taxes. I intend to
write a tax proposal, but first we need to decide on the tax rates.
Income taxes won't really work, as they would incentivize hoarding. I
propose the following two taxes.
1. Wealth tax. Every month, X% percent of a persons wealth, rounded up
(where X is a value between 0 and 25 set in a regulation by the
Secretary/Treasuror, and defaults to 10, although these values could
be adjusted) is transferred to Agora. This incentivizes spending
because hoarded money can go away very quickly, but not without
warning. I suggest that the percent be applied only to the portion of
a persons wealth above 10 shinies, and that if contracts are adopted,
the tax should apply to all contracts not exempt from sustenance
payments.
2. Inactivity tax. If a person has neither claimed a reward nor spent
money (to limit our measures of activity to things the
Secretary/Treasuror already tracks) in the last month, the
Secretary/Treasuror CAN and SHALL take 80 percent (that number can
change if people don't like it) of all shinies past the first 10 for
Agora with notice.
Let the debates begin.
-Aris
