Joel Uckelman on 10 Mar 2001 19:29:06 -0000


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spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Two Proposals!


Quoth Dan:
> 
> \begin{proposal}
> \title{Tax the Rich!}
> 
> 1. Enact a new rule entitled "Taxation" with text as follows:
> 
> The Property Tax Rate is a variable associated with the Game.  It can be
> changed only as described in the rules.
> 
> At the end of each nweek each agent, but not the Bank, whose score is
> greater than 100 points, owes the Tax Rate times their score at the
> beginning of that nweek, rounded down, in points to the bank.
> 
> If, at the end of an nweek, the score of that one or more agents as of the
> beginning of that nweek is not known, the Official Bean Counter is fined
> 20 points, and calculation of the taxation for that agent or agents is put
> off until such time as eir score is calculated.
> 
> \end{proposal}
> 
> [[Why don't I add a bit of an incentive now to make people pay their
> debts too]]
> 
> \begin{proposal}
> \title{Debt Overdue Charges}
> 
> 1. Enact a new rule entitled "Overdue Debts" with text as follows:
> 
> Upon the creation of a debt, the parties involved may specify a Debt
> Overdue Fee, to be paid to the owner of the debt by the debtor at the end
> of every nweek in which the debt is past due.  Unless specified, this
> value is 0.
> 
> 2. Enact a new rule titled "Bank Overdue Debts" with text as follows:
> 
> For debts owed to the Bank the debt overdue fee is always 0.05 of the
> value of the debt.
> 
> \end{proposal}
> 
> [[Did I do that right?  Please tell me I did that right]]

Yes. That worked perfectly. Well, not quite. The filter didn't assign the 
right numbers to the Proposals, but that's not your fault. :)

-- 
J.