1. B)
It is likely going to be difficult to stop the spread of the EU eastward, but we should look to maximise the gain we can make from this. Additionally, we should look to utilise these funds in ensuring our agriculture sector becomes as productive as it can so that food is available cheaply and abundantly for our people. This will likely need to be coupled with investment into automobile and tractor industries to allow us to bring food to table quicker. We will also need to improve our road network with this money for transport again. Although ideally we should look into improving rail connectivity as rail can transport much more food more easily, focusing on roads will allow our citizens to also be able to move around easier.
2.
@Kriss and
@ruffino have nailed the issues here. Expanding on what Kriss wrote, we should look to
boost up 40% vodka to double the price and look to introduce 15% vodka at the old price of 40% vodka - making it comparable to wine in alcohol content. We also need to
classify anything over 2% alcohol as alcoholic (
Russia OTL only managed to do this in 2011!). And we need to encourage beer consumption instead - if our people want to drink, we cannot stop them, but at least they should be much more productive with beer compared to vodka. Additionally, we are going to have cheeky farmers make their own moonshine. We should look to
create a festival showcasing their talents rather than try to crack down on it - and levy high taxes so the prices of "craft moonshine" are expensive. This should hopefully create a novelty aspect to the whole thing (less consumption) and encourage a higher quality moonshine that isn't so damaging to our people.
Farmers who then have the highest sales over say 5 years should then be offered an opportunity to expand their business with an eye on export, turning our problems into an opportunity.
Additionally, we
supercharge our tea culture. Any government meetings telecast should feature tea as the main beverage at the event. We also
create a state owned tea company (with a focus on quality, our officials will want good tea), whose tea the government is shown to be drinking. Just because the government will lose money over vodka doesn't mean we can't make money off another beverage instead.
3.
Tax breaks for a couple who marries.
Tax break on married couples who have had a child, with increasing tax breaks on the greater number of children you have -
capped at 6. We should look to not give out revenue collected, taking in less revenue is better as we can reduce corruption compared to if we give money to families who have children - distributing that money opens it up to corruption. We should also
introduce a Value Added Tax/Goods and Services Tax (at 25%). This will likely be our best source of income - and this can be used to tackle the alcohol problem from
2. as well (in the same vein as how tobacco is incredibly highly taxed). Otherwise, we need to create a robust entrepreneurial sector which can make use of the vast lands of Russia available. We need our citizens of all levels of prosperity to have money - we can look to regulate and implement things such as progressive taxes and taxes on capital gains and industry when our economy has more money in circulation. So
15% flat income tax for the whole population (we need to make sure the rich don't leave). Anyone found to be keeping
more than 30% of their assets outside Russia however, will see a tax rate of 60%. Russian wealth stays in Russia. On that note, we
introduce tariffs of at least 100% on imported luxury goods. We should however, come back to this in 5 years. Kriss mentioned this before:
Support formation of new companies/business and offer low, or no tax rate for new business for next 3 years
Which remains a great idea.
