Again on the subject of taxes:
How does a tax work on a service like a bus fare? Still 25%? Which
would make a (pulling numbers out of a hat, not to be taken as “real”
for TGW) 1D bus fare into 1.25D? (and is there change (dimes 1/10th,
quarters 1/4, etc) in the Dragon monetary system?)
I’m sure there is a strip on this already somewhere in the TGW universe.
if.. (im guessing here),, like Europe, taxes are already
factored in.. IE: if it says .99 ,, it is. .99 not like
US,. where .99 comes out to $1.42….
it seems the US is the only one where you pay the company
taxes for them… because company’s figure the cost of
doing business, including taxes,, to come up with that
magic number of “how much” to charge..
so.. at the register you are paying their taxes for them.
Change coins are .01, .10 and .25, which started with the same buying
power as ten cents, a dollar, and $2.50. Each coin is made of a hard
metal (for wear resistance) in the amount of around two-thirds of
it’s utility value, although that varies.
There are also coins for 1, 10, 50, and 100 Dragons.
You can trade a coin in for it’s full value of any metal you wish,
at any bank. They keep raw metal stocks in their basements. There
can be no paper money without changing the Imperial Constitution,
(75% vote of the House and the Council of Kings, which is pretty
much the Senate) and the Emperor/Empress would have to agree,
which isn’t going to happen.
Generally speaking, all sales must include the tax as a separate
item on the receipt, except where no receipt is given, such as bus
fare or vending machine. As long as 20% goes into the Imperial
account when the proceeds are deposited, no one cares.
Currently, as the economy got used to the new policy on taxes,
the Dragon has the buying power of around fifteen of the old paper
dollars. That’s where it’s been stabilized for several years now.
I’ll get to that in bits and pieces later in the story,
right now we’re going to auto insurance and licensing.
Yes, it’s possible to cheat, but the penalties when caught make
cheating very unappealing and keep the costs of enforcement low.
Thx for the explanation. What a different world.
But I like it. Only wish it was real instead of
this Micky Mouse “real” world we’re currently
stuck in.
Slow Xiden. PTUI!
Remember the sports store owner. He said he deposited his receipts in the bank, and the bank deposited 25% of them in a separate tax account, to be deposited with the government in bulk.
Personally, if I ever bought a Tesla I’d first set up an audio system
to play the sound of a Harley-Davidson cruising motorcycle, playing
faster or slower, depending on how fast I was driving, and add in the
Godzilla Roar for the car’s horn. First, I don’t want pedestrians to
be able to say that they didn’t hear me coming, and second, if I have
to use my horn, I want to get whomever I am blowing it for,
to pay attention.
Heh. Just noticed Walker Transport in panel two. Never noticed it before.
On my many previous read-throughs, when reading Cheryl’s comment in
panel four about the “buses the Walkers have here”, I’ve always interpreted
the “here” as ‘here in Jerico’ or ‘here in town’. Never caught that it was ‘here’
as in ‘right here, a few feet away from us’.
There is some legal issues. Nobody can declare himself Ambassador
nor another body can do that. They can be unofficial representatives
if the person and the foreign body agrees. They can not speak for
their country in any form. Anything needs to be confirmed as soon
as contact is made with the legal government of the unofficial
representatives.
they did just that… Ambassador Palas declared Rinna as “Acting” Ambassador,
until her government could confirm. “MOST” governments don’t like that,
because you bypass their diplomatic core,.
Two new incentives in my Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=20043190
More coming. I’m trying to find my happy place.
playground.. 🙂
I LIKE the way Cpt Chardis thinks.
Again on the subject of taxes:
How does a tax work on a service like a bus fare? Still 25%? Which
would make a (pulling numbers out of a hat, not to be taken as “real”
for TGW) 1D bus fare into 1.25D? (and is there change (dimes 1/10th,
quarters 1/4, etc) in the Dragon monetary system?)
I’m sure there is a strip on this already somewhere in the TGW universe.
if.. (im guessing here),, like Europe, taxes are already
factored in.. IE: if it says .99 ,, it is. .99 not like
US,. where .99 comes out to $1.42….
it seems the US is the only one where you pay the company
taxes for them… because company’s figure the cost of
doing business, including taxes,, to come up with that
magic number of “how much” to charge..
so.. at the register you are paying their taxes for them.
Change coins are .01, .10 and .25, which started with the same buying
power as ten cents, a dollar, and $2.50. Each coin is made of a hard
metal (for wear resistance) in the amount of around two-thirds of
it’s utility value, although that varies.
There are also coins for 1, 10, 50, and 100 Dragons.
You can trade a coin in for it’s full value of any metal you wish,
at any bank. They keep raw metal stocks in their basements. There
can be no paper money without changing the Imperial Constitution,
(75% vote of the House and the Council of Kings, which is pretty
much the Senate) and the Emperor/Empress would have to agree,
which isn’t going to happen.
Generally speaking, all sales must include the tax as a separate
item on the receipt, except where no receipt is given, such as bus
fare or vending machine. As long as 20% goes into the Imperial
account when the proceeds are deposited, no one cares.
Currently, as the economy got used to the new policy on taxes,
the Dragon has the buying power of around fifteen of the old paper
dollars. That’s where it’s been stabilized for several years now.
I’ll get to that in bits and pieces later in the story,
right now we’re going to auto insurance and licensing.
Yes, it’s possible to cheat, but the penalties when caught make
cheating very unappealing and keep the costs of enforcement low.
Thx for the explanation. What a different world.
But I like it. Only wish it was real instead of
this Micky Mouse “real” world we’re currently
stuck in.
Slow Xiden. PTUI!
Slo Jo and the Ho.
Remember the sports store owner. He said he deposited his receipts in the bank, and the bank deposited 25% of them in a separate tax account, to be deposited with the government in bulk.
Personally, if I ever bought a Tesla I’d first set up an audio system
to play the sound of a Harley-Davidson cruising motorcycle, playing
faster or slower, depending on how fast I was driving, and add in the
Godzilla Roar for the car’s horn. First, I don’t want pedestrians to
be able to say that they didn’t hear me coming, and second, if I have
to use my horn, I want to get whomever I am blowing it for,
to pay attention.
For getting attention right now, right on top of you, it’s hard to
beat a tractor-trailer rig’s air horn, or even better, a train horn.
Heh. Just noticed Walker Transport in panel two. Never noticed it before.
On my many previous read-throughs, when reading Cheryl’s comment in
panel four about the “buses the Walkers have here”, I’ve always interpreted
the “here” as ‘here in Jerico’ or ‘here in town’. Never caught that it was ‘here’
as in ‘right here, a few feet away from us’.
I’m not always this slow.
(Sometimes I’m slower.) 🙂
Oops. Walker Transport, not Walker Motors.
More coffee needed.
There is some legal issues. Nobody can declare himself Ambassador
nor another body can do that. They can be unofficial representatives
if the person and the foreign body agrees. They can not speak for
their country in any form. Anything needs to be confirmed as soon
as contact is made with the legal government of the unofficial
representatives.
they did just that… Ambassador Palas declared Rinna as “Acting” Ambassador,
until her government could confirm. “MOST” governments don’t like that,
because you bypass their diplomatic core,.