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TJDS said:
The Ministry of Finance shall lower taxes on all Classes to 60% or if a budget deficit is incurred before that, a five percent increase on the percentage when the deficit was incurred.
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While it a positive that taxes are being lowered, I have a problem with the way the new tax system is being implemented. Even as a wealthy person my self, I think it is wrong that I should spend the same portion of my income on taxes as a poor or middle class citizen. After all, I spend a much smaller portion of income on my necessities than someone less wealthy than. Those life needs are not much more optional than taxes are. In effect, this flat tax ensures that the poor and middle class are spending more of their income on mandatory spending than the rich are. I think this is wrong and I imagine most Hispanians would agree with me.

Additionally, this cut might well help those who can not fully meet their needs, it still does nothing to help the masses of small burgher artisans whom have no stable income due to tariffs undermining their ability to import the resources they need to produce products Hispania consumes and exports.

Lastly, if the conservatives want to make the environment for investment healthier for those of us who are industrialists, an end to intervening in the economy and an abolishing tariffs would do it. No matter how much money you let us stockpile, we'll be waiting for healthier times to invest.

- Manuel Medrano
 
 
 
 
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A Message by Gran Duque d'Etxeto
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Gerrymandering: Yes
Preferred Wording: Voting Safety Act
Assembly Restoration Act of 1840: Yes
Electoral Equalization Act of 1840: No
Press Autonomy and Rights Act: Yes

The Emergency Act: No
Repeal the Independence of Jurisdiction Act (1793): No
Lèse Majesté Act: No
Imperial Court of Hispania (Requires 60% approval): No
Article I of the CoPitAoMotSotIAotEiRttGotPatLB: No
Article II of the CoPitAoMotSotIAotEiRttGotPatLB (Requires Article I passing): No
Article III of the CoPitAoMotSotIAotEiRttGotPatLB (Requires Article I passing): No
Amendment to Article I of the CoPitAoMotSotIAotEiRttGotPatLB: No
Act to Prevent the Intentional Defamation of the Emperor's Servants: No

[Gran Duque]
[Unionista]
 
antonioneto232 said:
((What is the problem of the Emergency act guys ? :confused:))
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((Well, it's a bit long and complex, which makes us worried there might be loopholes "certain parties" might exploit if the act is invoked.))
 
((Paraliment))

While I am happy to see that the leadership of the conservatives have committed to backing the liberal push for safer voting, which the conservatives previously opposed, restoring the right to freedom of assembly, that the conservatives took in the first place and allowing a freer press, that conservatives previously threatened to nationalize.

However I am curious as to why the Prime Minister is not backing a gurentee that the vote of a small burgher, a class his Unionist party haf pledged to represent, is equal to that of an industrialist or a land owner.

It seems to me that not standing up for the middle class, be they a bureaucrat, an artisan, clerkb or officer, is something that runs counter not only to the intrests of Hispania, but to the interests of his party. Though I suppose when one is in a coalition where the radical reactionaries that fought to strangle the press, punish peaceful protest and allow gangs to run rampant at the polls, out number your Unionists, you must make sacrifices for their support.

I pray for the stability and well being of Hispania, that the Prime Minister makes no more further concession to the radical reactionaries in his coalition for the duration of his term.

((Actually, replace the railroad I wanted to build in Lisbon/Porto with one in Seville))
 
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((So we have Conservatives voting for liberal policies? Ha. Seems like I was the only one willing to oppose the liberal tide. Republic by 1850!))

Name: Arnau de Villahermosa
DOB: May 5 1818
Class: Bureaucrat (currently in University)
Religion: Catholic
House: None
Party: None
Bio: Born to a moderately wealthy lawyer in Barcelona in 1818, Arnau was raised in a radical liberal household. His grandfather was a known collaborator with General Montsegur in the Phoenix War in his younger days and his ideals of a Hispanian Republic live on in his descendants, although such things are no longer spoken of opnely. After the Phoenix reinvented itself in 1836, the family has distanced itself from the group, preferring its older ideals. Arnau is a student in the University of Valencia, and is a known member of several radical left-wing groups, some suspected to be linked to Republicanism. Vocal and unapologetic, Arnau is extremely supportive of reforms in the Empire, political, social, and administrative. He is a known critic of the Army and has already published several articles in newspapers in support of military cutbacks.

He is currently studying law, economics, and philosophy, and is attempting to blend the three together. He has expressed a dissatisfaction with currently theories however, and some believe that he will come up with something else to explain his perceived contradiction of the modern life.
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Something not known to all but the closest of his friends is his hatred of the Conservative factions in Government, and that he was the one to murder Prime Minister Dias.
 
 
((I was a proponent of a Constitutional Monarchy with my first two characters, before I went all borderline reactionary. I don't play the same ethos for more than a few characters before I switch. Oh, and for the record, this character has a very similar bio to a young Karl Marx, even having the same DOB, that isn't a coincidence.))
 
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Mach Twelve said:
((I was a proponent of a Constitutional Monarchy with my first two characters, before I went all borderline reactionary. I don't play the same ethos for more than a few characters before I switch. Oh, and for the record, this character has a very similar bio to a young Karl Marx, even having the same DOB, that isn't a coincidence.))
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((Yes we get it, you're trying to create communism/socialism. Very subtle.))
 
Dadarian said:
((Yes we get it, you're trying to create communism/socialism. Very subtle.))
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((Not if the Reconquista goes socialist social democrat first.:p))
 
zenphoenix said:
((Not if the Reconquista goes socialist social democrat first.:p))
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((Reconquista? You mean that club of aristocrats and capitalists that only pretend to care about the lower classes but seek to bind them in wage slavery?

They will join the Conservatives on the gallows when the time comes.))
 
Mach Twelve said:
((Reconquista? You mean that club of aristocrats and capitalists that only pretend to care about the lower classes but seek to bind them in wage slavery?

They will join the Conservatives on the gallows when the time comes.))
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((Hey, you guys were the ones who killed my minimum wage and economic regulations bills.))
 
zenphoenix said:
((Hey, you guys were the ones who killed my minimum wage and economic regulations bills.))
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((Well things are different now. The desire to kill all those who oppose me is still there, but now its "All Convseratives must die" instead. My goal at this point to see us fully liberalize soon and then do a tour of all the different Dictatorships to give us something to work towards.))
 
Mach Twelve said:
((Well things are different now. The desire to kill all those who oppose me is still there, but now its "All Convseratives must die" instead. My goal at this point to see us fully liberalize soon and then do a tour of all the different Dictatorships to give us something to work towards.))
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((Then join the left! Together we can bring rule Hispania as liberal and socialist!))
 
zenphoenix said:
((Then join the left! Together we can bring rule Hispania as liberal and socialist!))
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((That is the plan, for now,

But, soon I will grow bored of a Socialized Republic, and will look to something else.))
 
Mach Twelve said:
((That is the plan, for now,

But, soon I will grow bored of a Socialized Republic, and will look to something else.))
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((That is, until we find out you killed Dias and/or want to overthrow the monarchy.:p Maybe by then you'll have jumped to fascism, in which case we can have DIRECT RULE FROM VALENCIA!))
 
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