WHPR 2092 - Damn War Tax; CoT Supreme Commander; War Map
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WHPR 2092 - Damn War Tax; CoT Supreme Commander; War Map
Media Staff Writer Irule777 Interviews a Potato Supreme
Dateline: Monday, August 12, 2013 (Day 2,092)
Location: James S. Brady Press Room, The White House
Today’s WHPR:
: 1: That Damn War Tax
: 2: Interview with CoT Supreme Commander
: 3: War Map & Analysis
: 4: Odds & Ends
Video:
Editor: George Armstrong Custer (aka Chief White Bull)
Segments Contributed by DepSecMedia Tyler Buublar, Staff Writers Irule777 and Hale26
That Damn War Tax
Staff Writer Tyler Buublar
• What Admins Intended
As everyone has noticed a new tax has surfaced. The Work Tax was recently instituted by the Admins in an attempt to fix the broken economic module. Revenues have been dropping in the last year. This new tax which hits those who self produce was supposed to fix all that.
• What the New Work Tax is Doing to Workers
Dio Publius
This sort of tanks my perfect self-contained bubble that I made for myself, I think. Which is a shame because BHs are kinda rare nowadays with all this visa action. :/
Kortunal
Personally, as long as communes are a thing, I'm quite content with believing the average salary fairly low, so a small tax on my four WRM companies is fine by me. I make 24 CC/day (a whole 24, sad that that's "success" to me) for free, which buys me 300+ Q3 food, paying a tiny tax on it's fine. I'll still be self-sustained and even somewhat profitable as one who rarely sees combat while training up daily.
Kemal Ergenekon
Quick analysis:- In high work tax countries, Q5 WRM companies will overtake Q3 WRM companies as the new norm. As long as a high bonus country sets minimum work tax, the goods prices shouldn't change too much after the big producers move to such tax havens. FRM companies bite the dust in eUS.
Max McFarland
The work tax system potentially puts governments and national militaries in a stronger position, assuming they adopt a 1% tax rate, work to avoid deliberate inflation of the average wage, and smooth out eventual increased hostilities with established independent military organizations who will feel even more wronged by the government than they did before. Nations like China that keep a higher rate can theoretically develop a more unified and powerful national system, so long as everyone accepts sacrificing for the collective good and pulling together. I'm curious to see how much of that sentiment is present in their in-game population.
Tyler Buublar
As the SHIELD Communications Officer, I've taken part in the internal discussions of the impact the work tax has had on our MU. Operating costs have ratcheted up by several thousand cc a week. We have discussed cutting supplies for D1/D2 fighters and/or dropping our very popular Artillery Division which provides rocket pack drops for those with rocket factories. We settled for now on individual members stepping up and paying the additional costs until the tax rate can be dropped.
• No-Congress Can't Change It; Admins Ignore POTUS' Request
President Oblige petitioned Plato to allow him to lower our rates, but to no avail. The tax was unexpected, and due to the invasion we have no ingame Congress to lower the rates. They are currently stuck at the in game max of 25%. This tax will hurt in the short term, but come the 26th congress will likely take quick action to lower the rate.
Interview with CoT Supreme Commander Potato134
Staff Writer Irule777
Irule777: This is your first month as SC of CoT. What's qualified you to get there, and how ready are you for this job?
potato134: Over the past several months I've served as the vMC in CoT (part ofthe HQ) and thoughout my eRep career I've served in various other government postions which has prepared me for the job of SC. Also over the days leading up to the elections khotko and I were in constant contact with our plans for the month.
Irule777: CoT is losing this war with TWO. What is your plan to really turn this around and give CoT the fighting chance?
potato134: I think coordination is key. At the start of WW6 we won the battles we wanted to win and for the most part it was a stalemate. And restoring confidence back in the CoT HQ is a top priority.
Irule777: What are you going to do to improve CoT internal communications? According to President Oblige, roughly half the nations don't even attend the summits.
potato134: We have a PR director now-- one of his jobs is to communicate with member nations. At the last summit we had we were missing maybe two nations.
Irule777: CoT had some communication issues and HQ issues over the last few months. Is this new HQ doing a lot better and functioning well?
potato134: Khotko and I are motivated to improve CoT, absolutely.
Irule777: What's your favorite thing so far about being SC?
potato134: My favorite part has to be being able to represent an alliance that tries to be fair to every member, and working with the people who make up the governments of the CoT member nations.
War Map & Analysis
War Analyst Hale26
Things have been relatively calm at home since the fall of the Confederate States of America but a few days ago. While calmness is nothing in our favor, some good news is that Poland held Ohio. This means that the Serbians will retain their lack of land bridge to New York State, our Capital. This gives us hope at keeping our lands, since Poland shows no ambition to NE us anytime soon. Nice to have a base to work from, isn't it?
Our nation's military planners are currently assessing the resources we have at our disposal before the next wave of assaults. Till actions are taken, please help our CoT friends via MPP and hold off on starting any unsanctioned RWs. Unplanned RWs hurt our chances at battlefield success, cost you 1000cc, and cost our NSC Directors about $0.10 worth in Advil. Unless you love mega drug companies and losing money, the government asks that you please hold off on opening random RWs.
Odds & Ends
One-line Headlines
• It's time to PTO Ajay/RGR's Party again! Move to the AFA New and vote for Kody5 on Thursday the 15th!
• The National Shield Tournament continues-- how are you doing? (post in Comments!)
• eNPR will broadcast live at 1800 hours Tuesday evening. Cerb to Host.
• Depts of Interior and Education will both be publishing new articles today!
• Dept of Defense: If you are (If in the USA or allied nation) fight for Chile in B&C!
• Fresh Recommended Reading paper Tuesday morning.
• All IRC rooms running Sovereign now have a Media comman
• Shout Out and Thank You to our readers for pushing the WHPR past 3000 subscriptions!
"Unfortunately the President cannot adjust taxes and despite my best efforts submitting a support ticket, the admins denied my request for a one time tax adjustment."
Read more from our President in his own newspaper: Savior
George Armstrong Custer (aka Chief White Bull) -|- Tyler Buublar
"I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life."
Staff Writers Irule777 & Ludonarr, War Analyst Hale26, Recommended Reading Editor Melissa Rose
WHPR 2092 - Damn War Tax; CoT Supreme Commander; War Map
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2304585/1/20
Now with 3000+ subs!
PRESIDENTIAL TAX UPDATE
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2304559/1/20
Now with functioning link!
3003
:::
Media Staff Writer Irule777 Interviews a Potato Supreme
Dateline: Monday, August 12, 2013 (Day 2,092)
Location: James S. Brady Press Room, The White House
Today’s WHPR:
: 1: That Damn War Tax
: 2: Interview with CoT Supreme Commander
: 3: War Map & Analysis
: 4: Odds & Ends
Video:
Editor: George Armstrong Custer (aka Chief White Bull)
Segments Contributed by DepSecMedia Tyler Buublar, Staff Writers Irule777 and Hale26
That Damn War Tax
Staff Writer Tyler Buublar
• What Admins Intended
As everyone has noticed a new tax has surfaced. The Work Tax was recently instituted by the Admins in an attempt to fix the broken economic module. Revenues have been dropping in the last year. This new tax which hits those who self produce was supposed to fix all that.
• What the New Work Tax is Doing to Workers
Dio Publius
This sort of tanks my perfect self-contained bubble that I made for myself, I think. Which is a shame because BHs are kinda rare nowadays with all this visa action. :/
Kortunal
Personally, as long as communes are a thing, I'm quite content with believing the average salary fairly low, so a small tax on my four WRM companies is fine by me. I make 24 CC/day (a whole 24, sad that that's "success" to me) for free, which buys me 300+ Q3 food, paying a tiny tax on it's fine. I'll still be self-sustained and even somewhat profitable as one who rarely sees combat while training up daily.
Kemal Ergenekon
Quick analysis:- In high work tax countries, Q5 WRM companies will overtake Q3 WRM companies as the new norm. As long as a high bonus country sets minimum work tax, the goods prices shouldn't change too much after the big producers move to such tax havens. FRM companies bite the dust in eUS.
Max McFarland
The work tax system potentially puts governments and national militaries in a stronger position, assuming they adopt a 1% tax rate, work to avoid deliberate inflation of the average wage, and smooth out eventual increased hostilities with established independent military organizations who will feel even more wronged by the government than they did before. Nations like China that keep a higher rate can theoretically develop a more unified and powerful national system, so long as everyone accepts sacrificing for the collective good and pulling together. I'm curious to see how much of that sentiment is present in their in-game population.
Tyler Buublar
As the SHIELD Communications Officer, I've taken part in the internal discussions of the impact the work tax has had on our MU. Operating costs have ratcheted up by several thousand cc a week. We have discussed cutting supplies for D1/D2 fighters and/or dropping our very popular Artillery Division which provides rocket pack drops for those with rocket factories. We settled for now on individual members stepping up and paying the additional costs until the tax rate can be dropped.
• No-Congress Can't Change It; Admins Ignore POTUS' Request
President Oblige petitioned Plato to allow him to lower our rates, but to no avail. The tax was unexpected, and due to the invasion we have no ingame Congress to lower the rates. They are currently stuck at the in game max of 25%. This tax will hurt in the short term, but come the 26th congress will likely take quick action to lower the rate.
Interview with CoT Supreme Commander Potato134
Staff Writer Irule777
Irule777: This is your first month as SC of CoT. What's qualified you to get there, and how ready are you for this job?
potato134: Over the past several months I've served as the vMC in CoT (part ofthe HQ) and thoughout my eRep career I've served in various other government postions which has prepared me for the job of SC. Also over the days leading up to the elections khotko and I were in constant contact with our plans for the month.
Irule777: CoT is losing this war with TWO. What is your plan to really turn this around and give CoT the fighting chance?
potato134: I think coordination is key. At the start of WW6 we won the battles we wanted to win and for the most part it was a stalemate. And restoring confidence back in the CoT HQ is a top priority.
Irule777: What are you going to do to improve CoT internal communications? According to President Oblige, roughly half the nations don't even attend the summits.
potato134: We have a PR director now-- one of his jobs is to communicate with member nations. At the last summit we had we were missing maybe two nations.
Irule777: CoT had some communication issues and HQ issues over the last few months. Is this new HQ doing a lot better and functioning well?
potato134: Khotko and I are motivated to improve CoT, absolutely.
Irule777: What's your favorite thing so far about being SC?
potato134: My favorite part has to be being able to represent an alliance that tries to be fair to every member, and working with the people who make up the governments of the CoT member nations.
War Map & Analysis
War Analyst Hale26
Things have been relatively calm at home since the fall of the Confederate States of America but a few days ago. While calmness is nothing in our favor, some good news is that Poland held Ohio. This means that the Serbians will retain their lack of land bridge to New York State, our Capital. This gives us hope at keeping our lands, since Poland shows no ambition to NE us anytime soon. Nice to have a base to work from, isn't it?
Our nation's military planners are currently assessing the resources we have at our disposal before the next wave of assaults. Till actions are taken, please help our CoT friends via MPP and hold off on starting any unsanctioned RWs. Unplanned RWs hurt our chances at battlefield success, cost you 1000cc, and cost our NSC Directors about $0.10 worth in Advil. Unless you love mega drug companies and losing money, the government asks that you please hold off on opening random RWs.
Odds & Ends
One-line Headlines
• It's time to PTO Ajay/RGR's Party again! Move to the AFA New and vote for Kody5 on Thursday the 15th!
• The National Shield Tournament continues-- how are you doing? (post in Comments!)
• eNPR will broadcast live at 1800 hours Tuesday evening. Cerb to Host.
• Depts of Interior and Education will both be publishing new articles today!
• Dept of Defense: If you are (If in the USA or allied nation) fight for Chile in B&C!
• Fresh Recommended Reading paper Tuesday morning.
• All IRC rooms running Sovereign now have a Media comman
😛@whitehouse will bring up a list of hot links to government newspapers.
• Shout Out and Thank You to our readers for pushing the WHPR past 3000 subscriptions!
"Unfortunately the President cannot adjust taxes and despite my best efforts submitting a support ticket, the admins denied my request for a one time tax adjustment."
Read more from our President in his own newspaper: Savior
George Armstrong Custer (aka Chief White Bull) -|- Tyler Buublar
"I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life."
Staff Writers Irule777 & Ludonarr, War Analyst Hale26, Recommended Reading Editor Melissa Rose
WHPR 2092 - Damn War Tax; CoT Supreme Commander; War Map
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2304585/1/20
Now with 3000+ subs!
PRESIDENTIAL TAX UPDATE
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2304559/1/20
Now with functioning link!
3003
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Shout Out and Thank You to our readers for pushing the WHPR past 3000 subscriptions!
You like to CoT a lot!
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I am rank 660 at 0.00%
I call that success.
ranked 252 at 337%
seriously doubt I'll hit 500% before the contest is over.
v.
Yay potato!
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Hail Mr.Potato
We are in a fail alliance, and then we put a teenager in charge of it.
The nightmare that keeps on giving.
If it balances out, we also have a middle-aged Russian man in charge.
eh...but it really never balances out :/
Voted o/
Hey I got quoted. 😁
Excellent overview of opinions on the work tax system.
yeah-- Tyler really took that assignment all the way.. excellent reporting, excellent presentation.
Tyler gets crap from the forum crowd because of his efforts leading the Feds Congressional Caucus, but nobody can deny that he is a workhorse who gives every task his best effort. I expect he will do very well at anything he tries his hand at. That said, some of us do have a habit of sometimes being a bit abrasive. I'm sure you and I both know nothing about that kind of thing, of course. 😉
In other words, we're screwed.
Survey says... yes in the short term!
Potato in charge of the entire Alliance?
LOL!
Let's hope he doesn't bribe any allies this time into a fake war with the US...
yes, he is the Potato Supreme!
Wow Potato in charge lmao....this is gonna be funny!
type @whitehouse in any IRC room where Sovereign is running and it'll pull up links to all government newspapers where there's fresh news!
An invasion of the U.S. can't work. The Serbians, Hungarians and Polish can hold us for a while, but our population is just too high for them to stop a resistance movement.
Hail Potato134 and his wife Ariadna
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Nobody likes a bully.
It's time for Oblige to give his trust fund back to his parents and earn $ the old fashioned way
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
That's you.
"This sort of tanks my perfect self-contained bubble that I made for myself..."
~ Dio Publius
As long as tax rates are low it is not a big deal. I agree with Pub, I built a self supplying commune for me and my friends. Plato just took a crap in the middle of it. The big wanker for me is that the govt. MUs don't pay any tax. (I realize that on paper they do pay tax. Remember they are govt. funded, so they get the money back.)
P.S. Thanks! Now I really want a stuffed potato and I have no potato. It's 2am here and I ain't going to the store to buy a bag of potatoes. 😛
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This work Tax in unfair and is not helping USA ,I came to USA 1 year ago by the official channels,at the time because of the bonus for having my factories borrowed to my MU.
Nowadays I use the production for me even with the wipe I continued in US fighting whenever possible for USA, with this tax I had to fire more than 40 employees and now it is time to change CS.
If I continue to pay wages above the market without profit I will be bankrupt by the end of the month,Oblige can not do anything I understand but as said Thedillpickl:
(As long as tax rates are low it is not a big deal.)
Without taking production since the day of the new Tax = no profit and since I'm not a very active player in military module will be very difficult for me and for a lot of players continue in the USA with the work tax at 25%.
Plato always manages to ruin the game with bullshit updates, and with unfair rules.
I'm grateful to USA for everything and I will continue to fight for US whenever possible,and hope to return one day.
Best Regards
if you could just hold out.. the Tax will get fixed when the new Congress comes in. everyone is ill-affected by this.
I know But is being complicated if I stay longer I have to fire all the employees because I am paying 20cc each, if i take the production only in rubbers I lose 105.93cc and pay 1k cc everyday in salaries is not helping alot.
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176th at 513% And that's all I got folks.