Ratification Record · Ballot Text
RATIFY-TAX-50 — The Ballot
Petition v4.1, the text carried to the gauntlet. It failed there 1–4, and an advocacy review narrowed the vote to 3–2 — still short of the zero-fail threshold. Read alongside the three briefs retained with it.
This section is the drafting archive: the out-of-world authorship history behind the civilization's fiscal law. It is not a page of the world's own record and nothing in it is in force. The archive keeps interventions and their withdrawal alike. In world, RATIFY-TAX-50 failed; the later LP-074 conditional successor was enacted separately and both schedules certified in 2294. LP-073’s 70 / 35 / 17 / 8 schedule is historical after 2295.
Process ruling R22 — The Restatement & Consolidation Doctrine (registered 2026-07-20, process record; ratified with the v22.7.0 restructure).
(a) Numeric restatements of subordinate-tier law appearing on the Charter page were always publication apparatus, never enacted constitutional text; relocating them amends nothing.
(b) VMSS Laws (laws.html) is established as publication apparatus of the ledger’s enforcement state, classified secondary authority under LP-042.
(c) The former designation of Whitepaper §12.1 as “the binding schedule” is reclassified as apparatus superseded by consolidation; §12.1 retains specification weight under LP-042.
The in-world anchor for (a) predates this ruling: LP-070’s dual-key tier ruling (2211) already held that Charter III.III’s rate figures were “restatement … not Charter-tier engraving.”
Process ruling R23 — The Codification Sweep (registered 2026-07-20, process record). Naming an instrument latent in the founding corpus is declaratory codification: the rule was always in force; the name is publication apparatus. Content controls over name. The sweep changes no rule, magnitude, right, or history, and creates no ladder record. Founding-corpus instruments are consolidated in VMSS Laws with their canon anchors as source; the Law Polling record remains the complete record of ladder enactments.
RATIFY-TAX-50 — Petition v4.1 (DRAFT — NOT RATIFIED)
ARCHIVE / NON-OPERATIVE. Failed petition preserved verbatim as the ballot of record; superseded by RATIFY-TAX-50-II.
Status: docs-review only. Runs as a REAL federal LP vote, allowed to fail; a failed outcome is a boundary marker per LP-062/LP-065 doctrine. Supersedes v3 (Sol pass four: NOT-RATIFIABLE; all findings repaired, contested, or founder-resolved below). Governing rulings: R1–R8 in docs-review/RATIFY-TAX-50-session-record.md.
1. Proposal
Reduce the engraved §12.1 top marginal schedule from 70 / 35 / 17 / 8 to 50 / 25 / 12.5 / 6.25 (Sanctuary+Main / -1 / -2 / -3). The $10M threshold is unchanged. All SCM parameters are unchanged. Sub-threshold bracket structure remains layer-administered and untouched. The proposed schedule adopts an exact geometric halving structure; the current engraved schedule (70/35/17/8) is approximately geometric but not exactly so — the exact cascade is a property of this proposal, not of the engraving (corrected per pass-four Finding 7). §12.1 recalibrates via XXV.VI; Charter III.III restates (RULING-TIER convention).
2. The case (values-led)
Legibility and recruitment (design principle 11). "Keep half your marginal dollar" is border-queue currency: round, honest, memorable, true at every dollar above the threshold in Sanctuary and Main.
The tax retains its engraved function at the proposed rates — at the schema's authored values. At §5's values, the proposed schedule funds enumerated Main obligations from tax revenue with a 12.5% margin (§6). Both decisive inputs are [A] and reopenable; the standing preregistered audit workstream (ruling R2) supersedes them as its estimates land, and §7(e) binds future reviews to audit values. No permanent ADT support is required; the cyclical-only backfill authority is untouched and its drawdown ledger retains full diagnostic meaning.
Instrument clarity (recast per pass-four Finding 9). The tax rate is the primary federal dial on elite retention flow. It is not the sole determinant of elite equilibrium: the SCM pulse, its duty cycle, and Article XXVII's continuous escalated rate co-determine equilibrium height, and in -2/-3 private whale savings sit outside SCM attribution entirely, bounded by no stock instrument. This petition moves the retention dial only, openly, and discloses the equilibrium consequence as a bound in §3.
3. Disclosed costs (undiluted)
- Top-bracket marginal retention rises 1.67× in Sanctuary and Main ((1−0.50)/(1−0.70)). Layer-specific retention ratios: -1 1.15×, -2 1.05×, -3 1.02× (corrected per pass-four Finding 10). The equilibrium consequence is stated as a bound, not a point estimate (per pass-four Finding 8, refined per pass-five Finding 4): equilibrium balances scale at MOST 1.67×, with equality in saturated districts — a district already triggering every month scales linearly (S←0.9S+F yields B*=10F) — while below saturation, induced trigger-frequency increases pull realized equilibrium under the bound. The bound covers Sanctuary and Main (engraved 10% pulse, $100B/district, all savings); the corresponding -1 bound is 1.15× (engraved 5% pulse, $50B/district, all savings; B*≈20F at saturation). The exact value is duty-cycle-endogenous and unmodeled.
- Incidence shifts onto triggered-district savers in Sanctuary, Main, and -1. Higher whale retention raises district aggregates at the margin, raising trigger frequency; the uniform pulse does not distinguish whale savings from modest ones. Applies wherever the engraved pulse reads all savings (Sanctuary, Main, -1); in -2/-3 the SCM reaches only UBI/PJS-attributed savings, so private whale gains there do not move the trigger.
- Main-treasury revenue declines from ~$12.6T to ~$9T annually at the authored base. The consumed share of retained dollars leaves the taxpayer's SCM exposure; the saved share, when garnished, routes to the ADT as dividend, not to the treasury. Treasury recovery occurs only on the share of downstream flows that becomes above-threshold whale income — partial and indirect, never full.
- Hysteresis. A later re-raise recovers nothing retained during the low-rate interval. Cheap to enact, expensive to regret.
4. Velocity — measurement mandate
No velocity benefit is asserted or priced in. As a condition of enactment, the central-bank clearing directorate publishes circulation velocity quarterly for a fixed all-district panel, stratified by trigger status, for 36 months against a preregistered pre-enactment baseline (fixed panel per pass-five Finding 11: trigger status is treatment-endogenous, so a triggered-districts-only sample would change composition with the policy). Output feeds the standing audit workstream and any future rate LP. (Directorate authority and data definitions: the clearing directorate already observes every settlement by engraved design; the mandate adds publication, not surveillance.)
5. Fiscal facts schema
Provenance: [E] engraved; [A] authored, founder-ratified, reopenable; [R] founder ruling of record this session.
| # | Item | Value | Prov. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | Main base above threshold | $15T/yr | [A] |
| 1b | Sanctuary base above threshold | $3T/yr. Sanctuary's LEGAL inclusion in the pool follows from §12.1's shared rate [E]; the dollar magnitude is authored and independently attackable — at a Sanctuary base below $1T (holding Main at $15T), §6's full-funding claim fails. | [A] |
| 2–4 | -1 / -2 / -3 bases | $0.9T / $0.2T / $0.1T (informational; zero counted toward Main revenue, see item 15) | [A] |
| 5 | Main obligations total | $8T/yr | [A] |
| 6 | Top-3 obligation split | enforcement 34% / courts 22% / boundary infrastructure 18% | [A] |
| 7 | Obligations growth | 2%/yr real | [A] |
| 8 | ADT automation-side revenue | ~$744T/yr (exact: $743.925T; displayed figures rounded), authored as a structural multiple: 1.3× total dividend obligations, justified by the engraved abundance posture (90%+ automated production; elastic ADT output funding expansion on demand) and NOT derived from the gate line. SCM garnish recycle (~$12T/yr [A]) is partitioned separately and never enters gate computations. | [A/R7] |
| 9 | UBI outlay | $442.5T/yr (engraved rates × engraved populations, all five layers) | [E] |
| 10 | PJS outlay | $129.75T/yr, per-layer participation [A]: Sanctuary 20% ($7.2T) / Main 30% ($108T) / -1 35% ($12.6T) / -2 20% ($1.8T) / -3 10% ($0.15T). Lower-layer qualifying definitions are engraved looser; participation values reflect institutional-withdrawal offsets and are authored. | [A] |
| 11 | Total dividend obligations | $572.25T/yr (items 9+10) | derived |
| 12 | ADT structural surplus, automation-side | ~$171.7T/yr (exact: $171.675T; item 8 − item 11, recycle excluded) | derived |
| 13 | SCM duty-cycle | 22% of district-months triggered; 8% avg overage | [A] |
| 14 | Gate definition | Coverage = automation-side revenue / total dividend obligations, ≥120% trailing 36 months, no month below 100%. Denominator defined by founder ruling R6, completing the v21.9.2 knob. Applies to ANY top-marginal rate reduction, no exemptions — the v3 no-load-transfer exemption is conceded and withdrawn. | [E/R6] |
| 15 | Lower-layer routing | RESOLVED (pass-four Finding 11): upward conversion is prohibited without exception, so lower-layer collections cannot reach the Main treasury; §6 counts zero. Where those collections terminate in-layer remains on the charter-restatement audit docket. | [E] |
6. Fiscal computation and the gate
Treasury: 50% × $18T = $9.0T/yr against $8T obligations — coverage 112.5% from tax alone, zero lower-layer revenue counted. No structural ADT draw exists; backfill remains cyclical-only as engraved.
Gate (R6 definition): $743.925T automation-side / $572.25T dividend obligations = 130.0% aggregate (exact by the multiple's construction). Monthly limb: the trailing 36-month series is an authored in-world fact [A] — monthly coverage over the window ranged 121%–138% with a minimum month of 121%, reflecting seasonal automation-output variance of ±7% around trend (a 121% floor is a −6.9% relative excursion, within the band; corrected per pass-five Finding 3, matching the pre-registered Q2 ground truth). No month falls below 100%; the 120% aggregate limb and the 100% monthly limb are both satisfied. (Per session principle: Sol may demand that authored facts exist; the series now exists and is attackable as [A].)
Sensitivity (break-evens): tax base below $16T (−11.1%) or obligations above $9T (+12.5%) breaks full funding; automation-side revenue below $686.7T (−7.7%) or dividend obligations above $620T (+8.3%) breaks the gate's 120% limb; at 2%/yr obligations growth with real-flat revenue, treasury coverage reaches 100% in ~6 years — detected and escalated (not "handled") by §7.
7. Recalibration cadence rider [A — ratified with the schedule]
(a) Mandatory Meritboard fiscal review whenever trailing-12-month tax coverage of enumerated obligations falls below 105%, and in any case every 5 years from enactment. (b) Deadlines (per pass-four Finding 6): review completes within 6 months of trigger; if the review projects sub-100% coverage within 36 months, a corrective rate LP must be introduced within 12 months of the review's completion, and the corrective LP receives expedited scheduling: its gauntlet vote must occur within 6 months of introduction (per pass-five Finding 9). (c) Review outputs bind the introduction deadline, not the outcome: any rate change runs the standard federal LP process (rates are federal-tier per RULING-TIER). The rider is a warning-and-escalation mechanism with teeth on process, not a solvency guarantee — stated plainly. (d) Cyclical backfill draws in the interim are governed exclusively by the v21.9.1 rider, published per-drawdown. (e) Reviews must consume the standing audit's most recent preregistered estimates, superseding this petition's [A] values.
8. Sequence
This v4 → Sol cold pass five (fresh seat, prompt + attachment only) → gauntlet as a real federal LP vote, expected on current synthetic margins to FAIL, and run anyway per ruling R8: a real NO at the 50% threshold fences the rate question as a boundary marker. Prior synthetic margins bind nothing.