Ratification Record · Ballot Text
RATIFY-TAX-50 — The Ballot
Petition v4.1, the text carried to the gauntlet. It failed there 1–4. An advocacy review narrowed the vote to 3–2, which was still short of the zero-fail threshold. The three briefs retained with it are linked below.
This section is the drafting archive: the out-of-world authorship history behind the civilization's fiscal law. It is not part 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 of its 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(c) The former designation of Whitepaper §12.1 as “the binding schedule” is reclassified as apparatus superseded by consolidation; §12.1 retains specification weight under LP-042.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. This failed petition is the ballot of record, restated in plain wording. Its figures, numbering and the meaning of every provision are unchanged. RATIFY-TAX-50-II superseded it.
Status: docs-review only. The petition runs as a real federal LP vote and is allowed to fail. A failed outcome is a boundary marker under LP-062/LP-065 doctrine. This version supersedes v3, which Sol pass four found NOT-RATIFIABLE. Every pass-four finding is 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. The sub-threshold bracket structure remains layer-administered and is not changed. The proposed schedule has an exact geometric halving structure. The current engraved schedule (70/35/17/8) is approximately geometric but not exact, so the exact cascade is a property of this proposal alone (corrected per pass-four Finding 7). §12.1 recalibrates via XXV.VI, and Charter III.III restates the new schedule (RULING-TIER convention).
2. The case (values-led)
Legibility and recruitment (design principle 11). The slogan "Keep half your marginal dollar" serves recruitment in the border queue. It is round, memorable and 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 the 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 the audit values. The schedule requires no permanent ADT support. The cyclical-only backfill authority is unchanged, and its drawdown ledger keeps its 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 the elite equilibrium. The SCM pulse, its duty cycle and Article XXVII's continuous escalated rate jointly set equilibrium height. In -2/-3, private whale savings sit wholly outside SCM attribution, and no stock instrument bounds them. This petition moves the retention dial only. It does so openly and states 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)). The layer-specific retention ratios are -1 1.15×, -2 1.05× and -3 1.02× (corrected per pass-four Finding 10). The equilibrium consequence is stated as a bound and carries no point estimate (per pass-four Finding 8, refined per pass-five Finding 4). Equilibrium balances scale by at most 1.67×. They reach that bound in saturated districts, because a district already triggering every month scales linearly (S←0.9S+F yields B*=10F). Below saturation, induced increases in trigger frequency 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 depends on the duty cycle and is not modeled.
- Incidence shifts onto triggered-district savers in Sanctuary, Main, and -1. Higher whale retention raises district aggregates at the margin, which raises trigger frequency. The pulse is uniform and does not distinguish whale savings from modest savings. The shift 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 and does not reach the treasury. The treasury recovers revenue only on the share of downstream flows that becomes above-threshold whale income. That recovery is partial and indirect, and it is never full.
- Hysteresis. A later re-raise recovers nothing retained during the low-rate interval.
4. Velocity — measurement mandate
The petition asserts no velocity benefit and prices none in. As a condition of enactment, the central-bank clearing directorate publishes circulation velocity quarterly for 36 months. It reports a fixed all-district panel, stratified by trigger status, against a preregistered pre-enactment baseline. The panel is fixed per pass-five Finding 11: trigger status is treatment-endogenous, so a sample of triggered districts only would change composition with the policy. The output feeds the standing audit workstream and any future rate LP. (Directorate authority and data definitions: by engraved design, the clearing directorate already observes every settlement. The mandate adds publication and no new 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 open to independent attack. 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). It is authored as a structural multiple: 1.3× total dividend obligations. The multiple is justified by the engraved abundance posture (90%+ automated production; elastic ADT output funding expansion on demand) and is 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 as looser. The 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% over the trailing 36 months, with no month below 100%. The denominator is defined by founder ruling R6, which completes the v21.9.2 knob. The gate applies to any top-marginal rate reduction, with 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, and §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 from tax alone is 112.5%, with zero lower-layer revenue counted. There is no structural ADT draw. 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%. The range reflects seasonal automation-output variance of ±7% around trend. A 121% floor is a −6.9% relative excursion and lies 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 open to attack as [A].)
Sensitivity (break-evens): Full funding breaks if the tax base falls below $16T (−11.1%) or obligations rise above $9T (+12.5%). The gate's 120% limb breaks if automation-side revenue falls below $686.7T (−7.7%) or dividend obligations rise above $620T (+8.3%). At 2%/yr obligations growth with real-flat revenue, treasury coverage reaches 100% in ~6 years. That decline is detected and escalated (not "handled") by §7.
7. Recalibration cadence rider [A — ratified with the schedule]
(a) A Meritboard fiscal review is mandatory 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): the review completes within 6 months of the 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. The corrective LP receives expedited scheduling, and its gauntlet vote must occur within 6 months of introduction (per pass-five Finding 9). (c) Review outputs bind the introduction deadline. They do not bind 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. It enforces process and does not guarantee solvency. (d) Cyclical backfill draws in the interim are governed exclusively by the v21.9.1 rider and are published per drawdown. (e) Reviews must consume the standing audit's most recent preregistered estimates, which supersede this petition's [A] values.
8. Sequence
This v4 goes to Sol cold pass five (fresh seat, prompt + attachment only), then to the gauntlet as a real federal LP vote. On current synthetic margins the vote is expected to FAIL. It runs anyway per ruling R8: a real NO at the 50% threshold fences the rate question as a boundary marker. Prior synthetic margins bind nothing.