The Defense of Our Country

Day 2,235, 00:37 • Published in USA USA • by Evry

Hello America,

Today I come to you to discuss a topic of the highest importance to our country. I am not talking about the supply of hookers teachers and drugs candy. Nor am I talking about the lack of rainbows in the sky lately (blame the UIP). I am talking about our national defense.



The ability of a nation to defend itself should always be the primary interest of that country. It should guide their organizational methods concerning their military. It should affect their foreign affairs policies. It should concern their budget process. And it should be a great consideration when deciding upon a tax policy.

The eUnited States of America was recently invaded, and conquered by her enemies. The government of the eUSA spent around 8-10 Million dollars in fighting that invasion. The money was spent on tanking in key battles, increased supplies for our military, the purchasing of mercenary damage for important battles, and treaties with our enemies after defeat was inevitable. Despite all of that spending, in the end, we lost. We had our regions completely occupied, our economy decimated, and our populace humiliated. However, the loss was still somewhat offset by the fact that even though we lost, we put up one heck of a fight. Despite having 7 different countries invading us from literally every possible direction, we still fought back. We did not lay down our arms and surrender when the 7 simultaneous attacks began. The eUS and her allies managed to turn six of those seven invaders away. But, despite our resistance, we were eventually overpowered, and we fell short of achieving a full recovery on our own. We were forced to sign a surrender agreement with one of those seven invaders.The reasons for our loss can be debated over, and the decisions made by our government can be second-geussed for months, if not years. However, one thing became extremely apparent from this most recent invasion. War has become extremely expensive.



Towards the end of the war, when we were finally freeing our regions, congress became aware of the financial toll the war took. Our reserves were empty, and our revenue was significantly decreased. However, this is not the first time that the eUSA has faced this problem. When we were invaded the second time (the first time we were wiped), our Presidents spent a collective 7.5 Million dollars from our reserves. That doesn’t include our weekly budgets that we continued to spend. And yet, in preparation for this past invasion, our reserves were allowed the be raided. In the months preceding the most recent invasion, congress decided to have deficit spending budgets. We were spending more money than we were taking in from taxes. This was largely due to admin interference and game mechanic changes. However, congress still decided to do so. This should not, and can not be allowed to happen again.

In the current war module, money is king. Therefore, a well funded country is a better prepared country.



After the last invasion, congress made a decision to prepare for a future invasion. It passed legislation which increased our Work Tax rate to 10%. Our work tax has remained at that rate since then. In that time, our economy has flourished, our country has increased its resources with the peaceful acquisition of Irish regions, and our reserves are being rebuilt. However, some people want to see this progress terminated. They fail to see the reasons why building our reserves should be the number one goal. They instead hypothesize that lowering our Work Tax would greatly benefit the supposedly oppressed portions of our population. I disagree, and I have evidence to go along with my arguments.



It was recently mentioned that an 8% Work Tax would greatly benefit our population and relieve some sort of untold “economic stress”. However, the data shows otherwise.

Currently, our 10% Work Tax (aka, WT) costs (approximately) $1.69 per company that you Work as a Manager (aka, WAM).

At 8% Work Tax, you would pay about $1.35 per company.

That’s a whopping $0.34 difference when wages are around $17 per day.

As this wonderfully awesome company calculator created by MikeOntry shows:
http://www.ereptools.tk/profit/

There are no companies that would suddenly become profitable by the proposed $0.34 work tax change. In fact, even at the “oppressive” 10% Work Tax, the only companies not profitable are weapon companies Q4 and under. All of the food companies are profitable, all of the raw material companies are profitable, and all of the higher weapon companies are profitable to work as a manager in.

Therefore, no one would suddenly WAM due to a sudden profitability caused by the suggested 2% decrease in the Work Tax.

The only result of this decrease would be seen in our government’s fiscal reserves. Which is a very important topic to discuss.

At our current 10% Work Tax, (this past week) we make approximately 85k currency per day. Meanwhile;
Hungary made 51K currency per day on 1% Work Tax
Romania made 66K currency per day on 5% Work Tax
Poland made 59K currency per day on 1% Work Tax
Serbia made 129K currency per day on 2% Work Tax

Yes, that’s right, ignoring the fact that Hungary and Poland are close to matching our revenue on a tenth of our Work Tax, Serbia makes 1.5 times what we do on only a 2% Work Tax.

This is, for the most part, due to their large relative populations. However, this is something to keep in mind when setting our own tax rates. If we were to lower our Work Tax by 20% (which would result in a respective 20% decrease in revenue), we would be even further behind our enemies in regards to tax revenue.



That is the same tax revenue used to fund our military, MPP’s, tanks, mercenaries, rental agreements, air strikes, and Combat Orders.

I hope that Congress can see past the moral victory of lowering the Work Tax in order to pander for a few extra votes in the next election. The nation’s defense needs to be paid for, and a 10% Work Tax is what is necessary to do so. As I demonstrated using actual data and evidence, a 2% decrease in the Work Tax would not result in a significant change for those that pay the taxes, but would cause a significant effect on our nation’s ability to defend itself against its enemies.

~Evry

Congressional Budget Office Director
Secretary of the Treasury
Congressman
American Military Party Elections Director
Special Forces Member
Economic Council Member