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Old 01-29-2018, 07:27 AM   #18
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
The likely fix is to change the formula to vote = log (1 + aggregate lifetime taxes paid/arbitrary divisor). That's guaranteed >= 0.
You probably wouldn't implement that with a mathematical function anyway. You set thresholds at which you were permanently granted additional votes. That allows you to adjust them relatively easily from time to time to account for stuff like inflation without incurring the wrath of people who would be losing votes if you do. It also makes it easy to integrate with other schemes for awarding additional votes for something other than straight up cash payments - maybe you want to reward volunteering for government service without having to actually pay large taxable salaries, or who take on other socially valuable but low paying careers.
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