We NEED taxes

L$s NEED to be taken out of the economy to slow the L$ inflation. One great way of taking them out would be to implement a gridwide transfer tax. It should coust x% everytime you transfer L$ between an avatar/object/etc etc.

WHIP INFLATION NOW!!

Pretty soon there won't be any fun left. Just a bunch of nickle-and-diming people to death.

Plus, I don't want to have to pay somebody every time I give a friend $50.

coco

I am with Coco on this. 70 percent of the people in SL don't care what the exchange rate is because they don't sell L$ so why should they be hit with a tax if they give some money to a friend.

Alexa

SWEET MOTHER OF BAD IDEAS!

*runs*

I pay enough damn taxes irl, I will not pay them on SL...gimme a friggin break

Mention taxes and everybody screams

The point though is that Lindens need to be removed from the economy by some method. Taxes are one way, using Lindens to buy new land another. There are probably several more, I am only a new user so these are the two the immediately come to mind.

Another would be LL using GOM to buy Lindens and cancel them. This would have the least amount of impact on SL as it stands now.

We had enough bad experiences with taxes SL Circa de 1.2.

I think services should be raised in price before trade should be taxed. Do you really want to discourage people from spending $L when there is no benefit to be had from their $L other than a rising $L price?

How about a tax on land sales?

A trait of SL: Popularity is inversely proportional to the probability of implementation.

Or, y'know, you could just ask a Liason if they could take all of YOUR money and destroy it.

Anything to whip inflation, right?

We already pay taxes, they are called tier fees, and they are over priced as it is.

Its bad enough the rating bonus is being removed. Why are you people trying to ruin the fun of the game? What would be done to those who dont have any L's come tax day? Revoke their ability to log in?

And I still think there shouldnt be an exchange rate. If people want to buy or sell lindens using real money then so be it. But stop trying to punish everyone else because you few who do exchange the money who only want to make a quick buck.

*joins in the chorus of worst idea ever* maybe the people that actually care about exchange rate can pay it.. like a tickey box when you sign up..

We need taxes like an eskimo needs a lawnmower!

Encourage even greater purchase of land from LL with lindens, then void off these Lindens. LL makes plenty of money from the rental of land (in US dollars) so they can well afford to let some land out in exchange for Lindens, especially if it helps to keep their world in check and offset inflation.

In fact, with all the new land flooding out of LL, this should probably be the main way to stop inflation.

Hey, how about we wait six months to see if the changes instituted recently have an effect?

No? You don't want to wait? Oh, that's right, you're just a shrill alt-troll who wants to cause an economic ruckus.

Less screaming, more business transactions.

LF

I've got an even better idea than taxes. How about an API to make vendors that are linked into GOM (or the comming LL exchange) and automatically reprice items every time the L$ value moves? This way the inflation hits in-world instantly and we no longer need to care what the value of L$ is at the moment. If L$ is worth 4.00, you'll get my item for L$250. If its worth 1.00, sorry but you'll have to pay L$1,000.

It would also be nice if you could use the API to automatically send sales proceeds to the market at that rate if you wanted to. This wouldn't QUITE give us the blessing of direct USD without having to use L$ as a proxy, but its probably close enough, and definately a lot better than what we have now.

Meh. This coming from a balding, middle aged av.

[crowd]ooooooooh!!!!!!![/crowd]

And a bad way at that. A much better way is to use the SL exchange surcharge. It's much more fair to charge people for converting money to real money than to charge everyone, even those who don't participate in an exchange. This is a better method of controling the money supply. Albeit they won't have total. For instance if LL decides to decrease the money supply by raising the exchange surcharge, then more people will just use GOM. So in reality the limit of control is set by GOM's price. In any case however this will definately help. Kudos to the management.

Also what we need is content which delivers an experiance that people will be willing to pay for. This will increase the demand for money all around. What we have is not just an inflation problem, it's a PRODUCTION problem. When ever you have lots of additional people entering a society wh do not produce anything of value then the whole society suffers.

Fighting inflation begins with you!!! Lets get creative people.

It's much more fair to impose a tax penalty on some people than all people? That's kind of rediculous. No matter how it's done it will come back to haunt you anyhow though. If the money exchange charges a 10% surcharge on L$ sold, guess who's going to make that up? That's right, the consumer, who will pay a 10% price hike! Maybe even more to offset the increased risk associated with increasing prices! I think a more balanced tax policy, if a tax policy were to appear at all, would be best.



I agree with this entirely! One of the things that we DESPERATELY need is more COOL STUFF! If there were more COOL STUFF that people felt compelled to own, there would be more demand for the L$. Then, ideally, overall economic growth would keep pace with inflation and people wouldn't have to lose their welfare, pay taxes, etc etc etc.

That said, I think my vendor API idea is a solid one. If we could have inflation hit in-world prices immediately this wouldn't be such a big problem. Your vendors would just reprice your items to account for the lower (or, sometimes higher) L$ value. Of course, if you didn't care about the L$ value, you wouldn't need to use such a vendor and could just continue doing business as usual.

I also wish that land could automatically reprice itself every few minutes based on the current exchange rate. This may be even more useful than content automatically repricing.

noobs

We need taxes! I needed some taxeis the other day, to get from the station. The first one was late, but I made sure I got the next one. The driver charged me extra though. So to conclude, taxis are a good thing.

But there should be no taxes in SL.

I've always wanted to say "STFU noobs!" even though I don't quite know what it means, cause it soulds so cool

I'd have to be black, and kind of Mr. T like, then I'd say in a Mr. T accent "STFU noobs! I pity da fool!"

Anyone know what it means?

Shut The Frag Up, Newbie.

Except, y'know, not "frag".

Close. Bald, twenty-something av with a goatee and a helicopter hat. And a laser eye.

Nice try though!

LF