Tweaks to existing data

[mrstarware]

One thing I’ve been thinking of recently,
It seems that we need to have state schools, and spend money on different policies. I’m just wondering if the people are doing well, why do I have to spend so much on healthcare??

I don’t understand why the people wouldn’t pick up part of the bill…

Trevor

[Georgia]

@Tron

1: Where are the libertarians? - Right now you have socialists, conservatives, liberal, patriots, missing libertarians. Plus some policies like ID cards, no warrants, CC cameras, carbon taxes, have little negative effect, adding libertarians would fix this. I can also think of pretty much all of the government policies that will have negative impact on libertarians, while things like lower taxes, less regulation, less spending and less military would benefit them.

In the game, liberals favor social freedom and capitalists favor economic freedom. A voter who is both a liberal and a capitalist, then, is equivalent to a real-life libertarian.

2: Gun laws - Why is it the more gun laws you have the less crime there is? This is just not the case at all. No amount of government regulation can keep criminals from illegally getting weapons, by relaxing or removing gun laws you would actually have less crime.

A subject of much contention. This is basically a “he said, she said” issue in politics; anti-gun people taut a reduction in crime for their policies, but so do pro-gun people. Seeing as it’s a contentious issue, we should stick to the science. So I would say, do you have a scientific study that supports your claim that reducing gun restrictions reduces crime?

3: Military - I don’t see also how military spending reduces terrorism. You can say it increases security and reduces war possibility, but we all know that military intervention is what causes terrorism, so by reducing military spending terrorism chances should lower. Plus I’d like to see negative effects of too much military for all categories of voters as too much military represents oppressive regimes and while people want to feel safe and secure, too much military makes them feel like prisoners in their own country. So I’d like to see negative effects on all if too much military spending.

In the game, military spending includes spending money on counter-terrorism. Whether military intervenes in foreign countries is not simulated by your spending; that is what decisions are for. Ideally, high levels of military spending should trigger decisions that allow the player to make use of their military; the safest country would then be one that has a strong military which isn’t used to antagonize others.

Do you have evidence that everyone is made unhappy by military spending? Specific actions of the military might displease people, but I think things like restrictions on freedom are represented more by people being upset with too much investment in intelligence agencies. I think a better simulation is that patriots love military spending, while everyone is made unhappy if there is a lot of deficit spending. High military spending can then be a factor in creating unhappiness, but would not in itself be a source of unhappiness.

4: Welfare fraud - Should reduce worker productivity. In all places where these kind of programs exist they literally end up wasting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars/euros for frauds worth few thousand dollars or euros. In essence a massive waste or money and productivity.

Why would welfare fraud reduce overall worker productivity in the economy? Surely this is better represented by a policy which both makes money and costs money, with the costs exceeding the revenue if welfare fraud is at a low level and investment in the policy is high?