Comrades!
I begin by declaring celebrations around the dCities, victory over the oligarch elite that have been smothering "the little man" for too long is finally certain, today i defeatet my opponents in the #dCity elections. But, for a new player or the common player, what does this mean?
The following is a list of my presidential decisions on the eve of my presidency.
I had claimed, (and i will be) to be a WAR president.
However, as a demonstration of my merciful nature I have decreed that for today and today only the #dCities will leave our neighbouring nations alone, In celebratory gesture I have declared the day "the great white peace day of Eythorphoto´s presidential victory day!". ... Cool, huh?
The real reason i do this is that we are currently welcoming a lot of new players. Not all of whom are well versed in the art of #dCity politics.
The war tax is taxed on ALL cities equally, then shared proportionally amongst the owners of the militarized cities, such as mine. Personally, I stand to lose some 4000 SIMs on this move. And even tough heavily militarized, I am only number 40 or so on this list. This will really infuriate the old power elite.
I have turned on the "Jobs Tax" at least for the day. It is rather expensive, but it will help the new cities as they train up their workforce, so if you're a new mayor. Go ahead and get some Job Centres from uncle @Jelly.
The old Power elite of course always keeps these options turned off. as it cuts in to our profits, however, for a day i will keep this on. but new cities also need profits so i guess i remove it tomorrow.
What's your opinion? Eythorphoto listens to the people!
- I have lowered taxes, and they now stand at 7.5% (the tax percentage I am able to influence, the other one is related to SIM price and is steadily getting lower than our beloved SIM token continues its confident rise this is ESPECIALLY helpful for the new cities as they are able to keep more of their hard-earned SIMs and re-invest and mature their cities. The elite receiving most of its rewards from the great holding rewards and or financial "whooplah´s" like liquidity pools don't rely as much on SIM income written on each card.
However, new cities rely only on these stats from each card and are paying for the elitists' lifestyle by being taxed brutally, (othen without knowing they are) because they haven't come to the level of playing as of to having to ever needed to look at the "Government" window. ... The elitists will elect me out for sure next election! 😀
However, to understand economics and to be a responsible president, I see that this would lead to massive SIM printing, (compounded in size as bigger the city). The excess SIM printing (mostly landing in pockets of the rich, but put in place in order to help the new player start his city or the medium city get it's first, combined building the).
- To counter this, and counter it HARD, I have struck down with a vengeance on the issue of "the luxury tax", our former "president" and street NFT card hustler @Desyfit had that tax down as low as possible, 20%.
Now to understand the luxury tax, you have to understand that before the ranking system changed, cities were only rewarded and all rewards went to the Population category.
(I was taking in 7 Hive a day with those settings and doing fine, however new reward distribution is better and both more fun, and fair. However after the change many of the "old giants" are struggling (hence low price of apartments on the markets, (i am one of the biggest apartment retailers as is so i am struggling there as well) to reduce their cities populations too cover the social costs and inefficiency of running a megapolis of unemployed useless citizenry.
However, this pain was somewhat relived by the former presidents (for a long time now 20% Luxury tax, but that tax cuts into the megacities (the ones who have less than 0 SIM income, and are useless population centres milking rewards for their owners)
I have put that up to the maximum allowed by the president, a nice 70% of their income shall be nationalized in order to reduce SIM supply and allow for SIM production in the producing healthy cities and especially for new players. The reduction from the 1% is more than enough to keep SIM production balanced and allow for these tax cuts.
VIVA LA REVOLUTION! VIVA EL PRESIDENTE VIVA EYTHORPHOTO!
Your president!
Thank you for reading. If you are interested in playing #dCity, check out www.dcity.io and see if it is something for you, as well as there is usully someone in the Discord server who can answer your questions.
Eythorphoto!
Just look at all the new mayors starting this month, and most of them in recent days!
Have a great weekend evrybody! thank you for reading, now go tend to your city!
Yours truly!
Eythorphoto!