NationStates Jolt Archive

Title: Total Taxes Causing Tumult in @@NAME@@

Description: Intelligence suggests that sizable number of @@NAME@@'s citizens are upset - to understate things - about their entire income going to the government via taxes.

Validity: Valid only for countries with a capitalist economy and a 100% tax rate

Options:

[option]"Hey, I know that death and taxes are the only two universally acknowledged constants in life," says normally loyal citizens @@RANDOMNAME@@, brandishing an assault rifle, "but a tax rate of 100% is just too much. With it, our entire economy is dependant on exports and, most importantly, I don't have any money to spend. Unless the government wants to see a civil war, it's got to lower taxes big time."
[effect]popular unrest has led to a massive tax cut
[stats]Taxes are decreased by a large scale (perhaps down to 49%, if that can be done)

[option]"If its a war they want, its a war they'll get," remarks five-star general @@RANDOMNAME@@. "We should deal with all these self-centered narcissistic anti-government anarchy types the only way you can: with guns, tanks and bombs!"
[effect]the government is engaged inm a civil war with people unhappy with the nations 100% income tax rate
[stats]Political freedom decreases, crime increases (to represent the civil war), the economy goes down, defense spending goes up

[option]"It's not the tax rate that's the problem," says @@RANDOMNAME@@ of the People's Democratic Revolutionary Socialist Movement of @@NAME@@. "It's the capitalist economy. The people will stop whining and moaning about their taxes when the state takes the money away from the bougouisie and gives it to all the people. OK, so they do the first part already.... but the second part has yet to be done!"
[effect]capitalism has been outlawed
[stats]captialism is outlawed, welfare recieves a massive boost

What do you think? Comment please. :)

Validity: Valid only for countries with a capitalist economy and a 100% tax rate'Tis would be 'Valid for countries with a 100% tax rate and Private Enterprise illegal', no?

[stats]Taxes are decreased by a large scale (perhaps down to 49%, if that can be done)Requires a few more things, IMHO. Perhaps a general cut right through all potential government priorities.

captialism is outlawedSee above. Private enterprise is illegal.

'Tis would be 'Valid for countries with a 100% tax rate and Private Enterprise illegal', no?
Nope. Only for those who somehow manage to have both 100% taxes and a capitalist economy.

That's always been a pet peeve of mine... that countries can have a capitalist economy (that's even Frightening, nonetheless) when they have a tax rate in which all of the citizens' income is gobbled up by the government.

This issue should make such situation a bit more "realistic," as it were.

I think taxes should be able to go higher than 100%; then the "highest tax rate" UN specification would make sense, instead of whoever has had a 100% rate for the longest. And the effects should be worse. For example, instead of "capitalism is outlawed", say something about the people starving in the streets.

Whoops. Must have been half asleep when I typed this. It ought to read 'Tis would be 'Valid for countries with a 100% tax rate and an existing, legal private sector', no?, naturally.

100% taxes means the state owns everything, like a corporate state everyone is "renting" and in communism or fascism well they get everything given to them lol so like hard core capitalist countries couldnt function this way but any others could easily even if they have to re educate the whole population or are feudal, actually think of the feudal system i suppose, being a serf 100% taxes is like being a serf lol

Fascism is not 100% tax, and feudalism is very different from your definition. You also should not write several lines in one sentence and little punctuation; it's hard to read.