with taxes that high you might as well call it national socialism
Yeah, show me the screenshots before/after canceling the policy.
Mix/max Limit and One Child Policy
So, I did all of this:
Optimize QE, Helicopter for Hyperinflation limit (GDP)
Legalize Prostitution (GDP)
Remove Hunting Restrictions (Tourism → GDP)
GDP:Costs
Add Foreign Aid (foreign trade/investment → GDP)
Enterprise Investment Scheme (4.3% GDP, 19bn)
Small Business Grants (4.3% GDP, 48 bn)
GDP:Employment
Micro-generation grants? (energy efficiency → GDP)
Smart Meters? (energy efficiency → GDP)
Eco-home regulations? (energy efficiency → GDP)
and also eliminated “Trade Frequency Limits”, I still can’t keep GDP maxed in the bottom 20% range of global economy. It’s still around 95%. So, the “Internet Tax” is a dead end to this min/max goal.
From examining the options, it seems clear that the “One Child Policy” is the trick to maintaining the full min/max in all global economic climates:
With this unemployment bonus, I’m confident that I can avoid the “Internet Tax” dead-end to reducing unemployment by attacking productivity through technology, hence keep GDP-boosting policies at their maximum, with the only anti-market interventions being “Automation Tax” and the absence of “Driverless Car Laws.”
I also found that, despite the relative inefficiency of “State Rail”, the production boost sustains GDP better than “Climate Change Adaption Fund”.
Flat Income Tax and Tax Equilibrium
The Flat Income Tax does, in fact, modestly reduce “Tax Evasion” compared to the progressive income tax. I am not even sure if it should be this way - one might think that a flat income tax, by distributing the tax burden more diffusely across the population, would make it harder to audit and keep track of things.
Well, I do find myself looking at the 25% “German Culture” bonus to “Productivity” as an environment for trying to optimize GDP, directly and by boosting “High Productivity”, but getting stuck with “EU Monetary Policy” instead of being able to do my own QE and Helicopter Money would also set GDP back by about 9%.
It would probably be worth it.
Every other EU country looks like a disaster, in that sense.
You are just failing to see what I see. I’ve never said your Hunting Restriction policy is bugged or broken. I’m trying real hard not to ruin your fun of discovering new things in the game lol.
+on flat tax:
normal income tax system still needs to keep track of people’s income since it needs to decide how high a person’s tax rate should be… progressive tax system might exempt bottom 30% populations from income tax but they still need to prove they are too poor to pay it.
Okay, I have officially solved this game, playing as Japan.
GDP remains at 100 despite deep recession, wages, education and health at 100, unemployment, poverty and crime at 0.
Compared to what I did for the game above,
- This was achieved with “Year” at 29.60%, which affects Industrial Automation. “Year” significantly affects the ability to maintain full employment as it pushes “Industrial Automation” up.
- Payroll taxes were completely eliminated, because they suppress wages, and increase Industrial Automation.
- Full minimum wage, fully pro-business labor laws, full subsidies for labor unions, and maintaining very “High Productivity” → “Wages” were enough to cap wages, after eliminating the payroll tax.
- All direct unemployment policies were applied, without exception. “Energy Industry” was somewhat suppressed for max Energy Efficiency → GDP effects, though this may have been unnecessary. Only “State Energy” and “State Water” were not applied, because they actually increase unemployment by displacing private industry.
- All direct GDP policies were employed, except for Oil Drilling Subsidies. High Frequency Trading Limits were maintained, but GDP also remained 100 during flash crash.
- All direct productivity policies were employed, except for “State Energy Company”, which is an anti-employment policy. Industrial automation was maximally taxed, and discouraged by eliminating the payroll tax.
I suspect that somewhere, the costs for Japan are lower. I could afford a lot more than I could with America. In fact, I had enough excess income to completely eliminate not only “Poverty”, but “Poor” as a demographic.
The big obstacle here appears to be Industrial Automation, which was overcome through no “Payroll Tax” and lower “Year”, and being able to maintain very “High Productivity” → “Wages”, “GDP” , and the previous failure to use “One Child Policy”, which was only needed at the “Fines For Second Child” magnitude.
I have created the Worker’s Paradise.
It is quite literally that, because the unemployed are compulsed to work, everyone is employed, and the working week is as high as possible under these conditions. With a “State Employees” participation of 64%, and an even higher rate including government contractors, it may be reasonably argued that Japan has become an extremely comfortable open air island prison colony with a thin facade of market logics, underneath which the perfectly regimented population is effectively compelled to break rocks to teach them the value of Labor.
Finally, the people have achieved Unity and Happiness.
With the overwhelming force of Japan’s newly restored military, and her glorious orbital nuclear bombers shining like stars overhead, soon all of Earth will receive the unparalleled virtue of Work, and through Work, Freedom.
Lol, what an amazing paradise.
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Here are the internals for how this was achieved, feel free to ask for more detail on any variable.
Total
Wages
Unemployment
GDP
Foreign Investment (98% during “deep global recession”)
Productivity
Health, Education, Crime, Poverty
Average Poor Income, Average Wealthy Income, Income Distribution
Taxes
In the game state shown there is a very modest deficit due to minister inexperience. If replaced with a fully experienced minister, there is a trivial surplus.
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Achieved the same result for America, this time with the “Year” counter on “Industrial Automation” at 21.40%, compared to 29.60% for Japan on the first time through.
It still seems like Japan has more money available. Not sure where it comes from.
Maybe all that local debt reduces the Debt Crisis intensity and results in lower interest payments.
It would have been nice if worked that way but unique modifiers of the Japan mission do not affect credit ratings or gov. bond interest rate. It only makes Debt Crisis less likely to be triggered. But I think Japan having better credit ratings or/and lower interest rate would be more realistic.
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By the time these screenshots were taken, public debt, and hence debt interest payments, had been completely eliminated.
So, this was not a factor.
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