Leafsnail: I think that scale is (impressively) skewed both too far to the right and too far to the left. L+ isn't commie redistributionist enough, and M and C are too commie redistributionist.
Remember, try to set M as *roughly* what we have now. I'd slide C up to M.
Now, I may not be the best person to try to lay something like this out (I'm L++ or maybe L#
), but if I took a stab at laying one out, it'd be roughly along these lines (although it probably could use to be a bit "spicier"):
L+: Everyone earns the same salary whether they work or not.
L: Crippling progressive taxation on all forms of income and massive subsidies to the poor and unemployed discourage hard work and innovation.
M: The income tax scale is moderately* progressive, and limited benefits exist for low-income earners and the unemployed.
C: A flat income tax on wages only is in effect, and workers who lose their jobs only receive help looking for a new one.
C+: Personal income is not taxed, and the government is funded a modest national sales tax.
One nice thing about this is, as noted, difficulty scaling. Early on your members would be on the dole, but as you pushed taxes towards C+, that income would vanish (or if you pushed privacy laws towards the red first, it might become dangerous to collect it...)
(*If you disagree that the US has merely a moderately progressive income tax, I suggest you have a look at top-bracket marginal rates
over the last century. 35% ain't nothin'.)
Thinking about that, would the LCS fight for "politcal correct" speech (like how the CCS fights against "hate speech" in the LCS game)? So, in a Commie-Liberal/Liberal-Elite/whatever Utopia, "politically incorrect words" can get censored. The word "terrorist attack" gets replaced by [Political Activism], for instance.
I'd say yes. Any religious reference should also be obscured/made "general", and if one was really ambitious one could add
gender-neutral pronouns.