Recent Posts

Pages: 1 ... 3 4 [5] 6 7 ... 10
41
General Discussion / Things decided at the townhall meeting
« Last post by Womacker on September 05, 2015, 11:16:14 pm »
Alright. We discussed a lot of things. Now we are finished. Here is what was decided upon by the people that showed up.


More or less realistic?: Will be decided by the full community. Continue at another point.

New Forum: Yes

Admin System: Two Permanent Admins along with the sitting President being admin

Mod System: Cabinet members as Global mods with certain subforums having individuals as mods.

Who are our new Perma-Admins?: Anthony Kaiser and Diana (Pharq came in third tied with Gondor. WP made the runoff as well)

When are we starting to move to the new forum?: Immediately. Basically this is a beacon for you to start packing up and heading that way now! Grab your factbooks and head to the new region!

I'm assuming someone will post the new forum link here or something.
42
OOC: Almost forgot about this, just go ahead from wherever your comfortable.
43
General Discussion / Re: So the rest of the world exists...
« Last post by Confederacy of Turkducken on September 05, 2015, 09:09:06 pm »
Other countries exist, so I was thinking we could make up ideas for the other countries here and take votes on which ones are "real".
44
General Discussion / Re: So the rest of the world exists...
« Last post by Columbia Confederates on September 05, 2015, 09:08:07 pm »
Explain a bit more, I don't understand what you mean.
45
Capitol Building / Re: Speaker Nominations
« Last post by Amerikanisches Reich on September 05, 2015, 08:45:55 pm »
The Reich wholeheartedly and most proudly supports Montenegro Meraz.
46
Factbooks and National Information / Re: Post your states laws
« Last post by Freeland on September 05, 2015, 08:42:36 pm »
state-owned/governmental nationalised health service

The People Socialist Democracy Of Utah's National Health and Welfare Service is a healthcare system that is free at the point of use to any citizens of the state. according to laws brought in by the Socialist Party of Utah it is be the duty of the department of Health, department of Welfare and department of Social policy to promote the establishment of a comprehensive health and welfare service free ate the point of access and designed to secure improvement in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the people of Utah and for that purpose to provide or secure the effective provision of service. The National Health and Welfare Service receives a national budget of $300 billion dollars, some of which is paid through the optional national insurance costs, some through super rich taxation and most through government owned businesses. The National health Service also includes the national cancer research department, ophthalmology, dentistry and in-patient care.

It is predicted that without the National Health and Welfare Service many people would still be living in great poverty and disease. the general quality of life of South Utah has greatly increased thanks to this healthcare service. The role of the service is to not only sort out healthcare but also social welfare aspects of people lives. Benefits and social services are the responsibility of the NHWS and thanks to huge funding are hugely successful. The conservative party tried to privatise and outsource the NHWS however a study showed that this would only lead to its own decline and privatisation plans were turned down.
47
Factbooks and National Information / Re: Post your states laws
« Last post by Freeland on September 05, 2015, 08:25:13 pm »
Robin Hood Tax

The robin Hood Tax is an income tax on the wealthiest 5% of South Utah's population. This is a 55% tax on salary per year from all sources, domestic or not. Much like the super rich tax, this tax is to take from the oligarchs of the state (rich) and give to the lower classes (poor), hence 'Robin Hood'. The top 5% of South Utah earn approximately 20% of the states GDP equalling to almost $6,270,000,000 (6.27 billion). The robin Hood Tax accumulates nearly $3,448,500,000 (3.4485 billion) a year. Combined with the Super rich tax this gives an extra $5.2725 billion to the welfare system at the expense of the super rich population. Another less effective but still efficient part of the Robin Hood Tax is the taxation of inheritances, known as the birth money tax, over $1 million. Whilst many inheritances rarely exceed $500,000 the wealthiest 5% often exceed $20 million with the 1% consistently exceeding $70 million. It is only the top 18% of the population who are affected by this and the rest of the population are not taxed on inheritance. This part of the tax accumulates approximately $2.8125 billion per annum. This is just a small 15% of the $18,750,000,000 (18.75 billion) that is inherited every year. This money is spent on government sponsored and state-owned businesses, programs and services. Overall (since their introduction in 2004) the Socialist parties rich taxes have accumulated nearly $88,935,000,000 (88.935 billion).
48
Factbooks and National Information / Re: Post your states laws
« Last post by Freeland on September 05, 2015, 08:04:34 pm »
Super rich tax

In the early days of South Utah's independence the top 1% had as much money as the bottom 85%. The government, who were intact the oligarchs, did nothing about it and eventually they were kicked out by the socialists and to mend the huge inequality gap the super rich tax was introduced. The super rich is the top 3% richest people. This is a tax on net worth and not income. Every year, 1% of the top 3% richest peoples net worth is taken and put into the social welfare system where it will help people at the bottom of the economic hierarchy. This is definitely aiding the governments initiative to bring about more equality in South Utah and also gives steady funding to the states Social Welfare system. Approximately $1.824 billion dollars is taken every year from the rich and effectively given to the poor or less fortunate.

The abolition of this tax has been of recent debate with the Republicans and Conservatives however the Socialist (majority), Workers and Equality parties insist it remain.
49
bleh blah whatever, I really don't think you should have to be "approved" for a political party
50
(that's my job :P)
Pages: 1 ... 3 4 [5] 6 7 ... 10