SB 30-15: Comptroller Reform Act

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am open to the concept of this, as I think it would improve the game provided it can be done practically and within reason.

Also there are some issues with the text that need to be addressed. It is operating as a bill but words like a resolution, references a commission that no longer seems to be clearly defined etc.

I guess I will motion to assume sponsorship, Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am recognized as sponsor.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

To add to what I said before, I think there is benefit to be had from having a dynamic economic simulator where our policies have response feedback and such forth. The basis for this in my mind was the economic simulator in a late 2000s Paradox game and certainly if that level of complexity could be achieved in a game 14 years ago, we can do something much simpler with just one economy in question in 2021.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I don't want to kick this back to the house, but the wording of Section III just seems off.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I don't see this one on the new noticeboard?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

LfromNJ told me he will start on this soon.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The curve has not been the source of controversy, the source of controversy pertains where Laffer himself and others have argued we are at on the curve at a given time. Certainly there is some level where diminishing returns kicks in. However, it works both ways. Below a certain level, further cuts don't yield the desired growth and/or revenues.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If the CG had something concrete to work with, it could also work the opposite way of most dictates if that makes senses provided it is simple, easy to use and easy to understand.

"takes away most of the job of the CG" - wouldn't that make more people willing to do it?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Bumping this. I would like to get somes responses to my previous post.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

In terms of what you mean by realism, do you mean what would actually happen as a consequence of actions being done or a copy paste from real life data without considering the in game differences on various factors (policies, history etc)? It seems from the Sestak example, to be the latter scenario in which case, I wouldn't necessarily consider that to be an example of "realism" as I have applied the term for a good while.

Historically speaking, the "quest for realism" meant that in game actions had "realistic consequences or effects" not that the data matched real life for the sake of matching real life regardless of what might make it not be so.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

so what are we doing as for the CG? We keep hitting a brick wall when legislating because we have none so we can't get numbers really.

Strange correlation between the return to college and the loss of math people. I wonder why that is.

I actually put Encke in the Congress last year (I think it was last year) specifically to work on the budget during the Spring and summer because I knew he would be one of the few that could pull it off and if need be, do the math himself.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Abstain