Pacific Legislature Official Thread

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A note from your friendly neighbourhood dictator; certain things will happen in the Pacific if certain things get passed by the regional legislature.

Thankee.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Just a note to say that I'm still reading this. Much material has been gathered for another Ingsoc publication (one not seen for months... maybe over a year?) and I'd like to thank you all for that

Lenin and Trotsky were much the same way in regards to religious faith, and there was atheist persecution all the years of the Soviet Union. This goes beyond just Stalin.

The irony here is that a classical Marxist view of religion would be that it, like the state, it would just wither away when the Socialist utopia is established, as it would no longer have a useful purpose to the people (or to put it another way; when things are good enough to mean that there's no need for opium to take the pain and suffering away).

O/c the emphasis of Marxist-Leninism was always on the latter name...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

As a citizen of New Mexico, I reaffirm our state's loyalty to the Pacific Region and our Western brethren. I do request more moderation from my counterparts, however.

You registered as a New Mexico voter after the state shut it's borders (check the time on the Wireserf thread).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Just another note; full details on what the hell is going on will be published in an Ingsoc publication pretty soon.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It is actually possible that all of New Mexico's borders were closed earlier today. It's also possible that only the border with Arizona was. Ingsoc does not know the answer to this question but will do by the time the next official thread is updated.

But you'll have to wait a few hours to find out.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It is actually possible that all of New Mexico's borders were closed earlier today. It's also possible that only the border with Arizona was. Ingsoc does not know the answer to this question but will do by the time the next official thread is updated.

But you'll have to wait a few hours to find out.

Or a few days

Not been well recently. Apologies. Something should be up tomorrow.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

*waits for Al*

You sure about this?

Alright... if you insist...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I note that this region is undergoing a totally innocent population boom.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I'm not really posting as my fantasy self here...

In my experience books are mostly purchases of the wealthier amongst us.

This situation will not improve if you artificially increase their price.

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That's quite an elitist (no, I mean actually elitist, not "elitist" in the sense it's often used in American political discourse post-1968 or so) statement, though you probably don't realise it. But read it again, and out of context, and you might.

The point is that books and reading ought not be restricted to certain social classes, that literacy is (or at least ought to be) a gateway to self-education and self-improvement and that a tax on books is (as the campaign against the Thatcher government's attempt to remove books from 0% VAT put it) a "tax on knowledge". Of course if you go even further back - one of the traditional calling-cards of a certain sort of reactionary regime was a tax on books and newspapers (guess why).

Making the situation even worse than it is (I remember reading an estimate on how many Americans read books on a regular basis and being pretty shocked) in order to fight the deficit is an unusual action for a liberal-ish government to take.

Besides, you'd get more money from taxing luxury goods.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

How could a tax on luxury goods be written?

Define what "luxury goods" are, work out an appropriate rate, and tax them.