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 the number of coins in a welcome package.
Thoughts: 1. Why aren't all these quantities switches - switches come with a lot of built-in protections. 2. If we're doing tax rates, proposing tax rates should be linked to elections (taxes being of course the most ancient political issue there is). We had an old mechanism for that (the old definition of "budgets") though it's easy enough to write your own. 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? 4. Until we have a trading economy I'm opposed to taxes. Because if coin wins are being treated as "high score" they shouldn't be taxed, because accumulation is the whole point, and there's no game need to make sure the rich and the poor are balanced. -G.
