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TGW-824

Chapter: 27 Cherry Delight
Characters: ambassador Palas, Capt Chardis, Cherry, dragonflys, jami, rinna
Location: Catia's pride, street
└ Tags: beauty and brains., congratulations ambassador

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Discussion (15) ¬

  1. Petercat
    August 17, 2021, 17:48 | # | Reply

    Two new incentives in my Patreon:
    https://www.patreon.com/user?u=20043190
    More coming. I’m trying to find my happy place.

    • rob stanley
      August 18, 2021, 14:49 | # | Reply

      playground.. 🙂

  2. President Elect B Woodman
    August 18, 2021, 07:54 | # | Reply

    I LIKE the way Cpt Chardis thinks.

  3. President Elect B Woodman
    August 18, 2021, 08:02 | # | Reply

    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.

    • rob stanley
      August 18, 2021, 10:50 | # | Reply

      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.

    • Petercat
      August 18, 2021, 13:08 | # | Reply

      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.

      • President Elect B Woodman
        August 18, 2021, 13:37 | # | Reply

        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!

        • Petercat
          August 18, 2021, 15:29 | # | Reply

          Slo Jo and the Ho.

    • TubT
      April 26, 2024, 09:45 | # | Reply

      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.

  4. JasonAW3
    August 18, 2021, 19:12 | # | Reply

    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.

    • Sam
      December 22, 2023, 14:40 | # | Reply

      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.

  5. Sam
    December 22, 2023, 14:45 | # | Reply

    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.) 🙂

    • Sam
      December 22, 2023, 14:46 | # | Reply

      Oops. Walker Transport, not Walker Motors.

      More coffee needed.

  6. Michael
    May 20, 2024, 13:11 | # | Reply

    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.

    • rob stanley
      May 21, 2024, 09:29 | # | Reply

      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,.

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