NationStates Jolt Archive


Restructure inner city

24-11-2003, 05:38
Issue:

As the larger cities expand outwards, the inner city is losing money and thus turning into ghetto driven poverty. Gangs are over running the streets and the vast majority are living on welfare.

1#. Joe Blow, leader of the National Organization of higher welfare says "We need to restrict building outside of city limits". Bring the money back to the heart of the city.

2#. Squirlly Shirley thinks that "while restricting outer city building is feasible, it is an infringement on our economic rights of free enterprise. I say, tear down the slums and force the inner city folks to rebuild rather than living in squalor themselves. This will attract businesses back to their area. If they want change, let them make the change.

3#. Willy Nilly about explodes at both of these propositions and shouts at the top of his lungs. "It's the drugs that have doomed the inner city." "Why would we want to build businesses where every crack dealer lives? Only to suffer the loss of revenue because everybody is afraid to be shot in a driveby?"... Enforce tighter drug laws, and businesses will automatically gravitate back towards the city.

4#. Apostle Paul, from the Holy Roller church of the Third Trinity gentle strives in and says "The people of the inner city need prayer". More churches in this sector are the answer. Let the church take over (free of charge of course) the abandonded buildings and we will build hostels, refuges and soup kitchens. This only comes at the small price of giving your soul to the church.

Consequence:
1. raises taxes on big business, and instills penalties towards businesses that opt for outer city building. This snowballs into businesses leaving your nation for greener pastures on the next local island. Political freedoms take a hard hit.

2. Gives big business a tax break, and raises the common/average/poor man's taxes. Causing the homeless population to sky rocket, and the ghetto spreading further out. Civil liberties go down.. slightly.

3. Lowers and raises taxes at same time, so there is no impact. Tightens drug laws, and big business does begin to gravitate back towards the inner city. Civil liberties take a slight hit, but political freedoms go up. Also economy goes up.

4. Civil liberties goes up, but you have cult factions springing up all over the inner cities. Drug usage goes down, but Jim Baker (or some type like this) is on the next GOP ballot, backed by the inner city folks.
Ozworld
24-11-2003, 16:52
Issue:


2. Gives big business a tax break, and raises the common/average/poor man's taxes. Causing the homeless population to sky rocket, and the ghetto spreading further out. Civil liberties go down.. slightly.



Good issue............but I dont think that you can have two tax rates its only one tax rate for people and bussiness :)
24-11-2003, 18:40
Issue:


2. Gives big business a tax break, and raises the common/average/poor man's taxes. Causing the homeless population to sky rocket, and the ghetto spreading further out. Civil liberties go down.. slightly.



Good issue............but I dont think that you can have two tax rates its only one tax rate for people and bussiness :)

What? Uh, wrong... :roll:
There are different taxes for businesses an people. A person wouldn't pay corporate taxes, any more than a corporation would pay domestic taxes.
Idiot...
HC Eredivisie
24-11-2003, 19:39
Issue:


2. Gives big business a tax break, and raises the common/average/poor man's taxes. Causing the homeless population to sky rocket, and the ghetto spreading further out. Civil liberties go down.. slightly.



Good issue............but I dont think that you can have two tax rates its only one tax rate for people and bussiness :)

What? Uh, wrong... :roll:
There are different taxes for businesses an people. A person wouldn't pay corporate taxes, any more than a corporation would pay domestic taxes.
Idiot...

in the game :roll:
24-11-2003, 19:53
Wouldn't be so sure about that. There's a load of stats that don't actually appear on any of the pages - the game's sums are a lot more complex than they look.

I don't know, though - it MIGHT all just work on income tax rate...
30-11-2003, 19:42
In the game, the poor/common/wealthy do show different tax levels depending on the issues that you choose. Typically it is expressed as "average income tax is xx% but much higher for the wealthy"...

So, I don't see a problem with this because the game is already set up to show a difference.

anyways,, obligatory bumping to get more responses.
Emperor Matthuis
30-11-2003, 22:08
isn't bad but the first issue had 1 line which you've got to change you need about 4 lines not including the effects and stats for it to be recognised needs tweaking
Emperor Matthuis
30-11-2003, 22:08
isn't bad but the first issue had 1 line which you've got to change you need about 4 lines not including the effects and stats for it to be recognised needs tweaking
Emperor Matthuis
30-11-2003, 22:10
isn't bad but the first issue had 1 line which you've got to change you need about 4 lines not including the effects and stats for it to be recognised needs tweaking
Frigben
01-12-2003, 08:03
Some of the effects have too few good things, and some have too many of them. If I knew the effects, I'd always go for tightening drug laws, even though principally I agree with the second option, simply because the second one has something like three cons to one/two pro/s.