American Taxes
Day 2,674, 04:30
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by Sweet Drinker
*This article is for educational purposes only, it is not an advocacy for policy change.
eAmerican Taxes, especially their punitive levels, has been floating around global media recently. krakken wrote a decent little piece mentioning it here for instance. So while we're all having a good snicker at the eAmericans, I wanted to explain (to those who don't know) why the eAmericans are laughing right back about the whole situation.
As the krakken points out in his article, despite all their production bonuses, American producers earn less than international rivals due to punitively high Work Tax.
So why would the eAmerican population put up with that?
The krakken hints to the answer when he then points out that they don't really have 'a national army', and asks what they do with their revenue.
What you're looking at is a functional model of Socialism. And a highly evolved one at that.
In the typical eCapatilist model (and even the typical eSocialist model for that matter), a viable production/consumer ratio is the key to abundancy. And the more volume weighing against that ratio the better!
But as we've all seen, it is very difficult to attain that healthy ratio, more so to maintain.
In a socialist model, the intellectual authorities seize control of a large share of the total resources to allocate as they deem will best nurture the needs of society. When you consider other production costs, it would be fair to say that eAmerican taxes claim most of the discretionary income in their society.
eGovernments only need more money because they need more damage.
What eGovernments really trade in is damage.
And that's where eAmerican tax revenue goes.
Instead of pressuring more production/consumerism into the environment, they have instead created a damage-driven-economy by redistributing this tax revenue via National CO's.
To an eAmerican:
The Daily Order is their Daily Tax Refund
The CotD is a government subsidy
Energy Bars are like Bonds that can be cashed in at their discretion
Upgraded Training Grounds are Uni degrees, definitely worth taking a loan out for, to advance your fino-military career.
And the eAmerican government rests assured that their resources are spent on exactly what they need. While nurturing their damage capacity and restricting overproduction problems.
You guys all know how lucrative CO's can be.
Imagine if every hit you ever made was paid and in your national interest to boot! That is the current 'eAmerican Dream'.
Honestly, this concept is something people should be taking more seriously.
eLife is,
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You better look over your shoulder accusing the Yanks of being Socialist! It's an interesting concept, especially for a large country with constant wars.
The term "socialist" is a slur in America often used against political opponents to discredit them and their policy views. The young are beginning to heal from the Cold War trauma, but we still got a lot of those Baby Boomers around who hate that word irrationally.
Why Liam?
The Socialist Yanks believe in socialism, the capitalists believe the reason everything is ruined is the encroachment of Socialism upon their pure free-market economy.
So no matter their persuasion, every Yank should find something they like here 😉
Colin, what do you know about babyboomers, or trauma? Were you even born when Gorbi threw the towel in?
The closest you've ever come to live ordinance is when you visit your dealer.
Your ideas about environmentalism, economics, and human nature are naive at best.
I see the affects the babyboom generation has had on society - we're here to make up for the continuous mistakes you've failed to solve. We're suffering because of past generation's mistakes, be thankful for us - we are your future, your fate is in our hands. Get with the program, capitalism won't survive the 21st century.
Omg you're resorting to the b/s "human nature" argument - "humans are naturally greedy" yeah like that is only thing that will give us incentive to do work. You're disregarding the many other traits that compose our "human nature". Of course your hypermasculine perspective only sees acquisition, conquest, "dominance" as the only method of economic growth - while you wholly ignore the reproductive sphere. Your idea of economics is incomplete in that sense and also that it lacks any connection to the environment as well. Our economy depends on our environment and how well we manage its resources, but the production-for-profit method is utter chaos and unsustainable.
Take a seat.
I'm sorry if I gave you the impression I personally was a babyboomer.
I'm actually somewhat younger than that 😁
Those guys were pretty concerned with the acceleration of nuclear technology, and somewhat lacking in the technology and infrastructure that makes environmentalism so damn easy now. Are you so pissed at them for not having the post-war, atomic world they inherited, prepared exactly to your liking by the time you were born?
This is why ppl with a bit more perspective think you're naive Mike.
I challenge you to a debate with no set questions. The only rules are we write well thought out responses in the media, not carry them out in comment sections. Let's settle this debate once and for all...
There can only be one!
I challenge you to employ crop rotations, or install energy efficient windowpanes. Or plant a tree. Could you honestly even tell the difference between White pine and Red? Ever work with ammonia based refrigeration? (The environmentally friendlier replacement to CFC producing freon).
Or do you just take your 'recycling' to the curb every week, proclaim yourself an eco-warrior, and criticize everybody else for not saving the world?
Ofc you'd challenge me to a debate, more talk, never contribution Mike.
Oh my god you stated the most menial act that people can do to "better the environment" and accused me of taking pride in simply doing what is obviously the right thing to do and takes no time out of the day.
I won't begin until we have agreed on the rules of engagement. I want to know what you can do or if you're just a number cruncher with little historical analysis and basic assumptions.
You refer to concrete proactive environmental efforts as "menial".
checkmate
Well written Sweet
lol where is the money apple where is the money?
I pissed it all away on wiskey and ginger women!
really ?the whiskey i could understand but eIrelands moms now that is just a bad investment!
Voted for the ginger women
eBS just drag its body outta here sweet your org eDied . Drop from 3.4 million to 1.9 million was never accounted for due to a system you introduced. I would not buy anything this old fartbag is selling.
Don Croata introduces transparency: suddenly we know how much money we have and in 3 months had no attacks and is one of the last democracies left.
to achieve lots of money in CO which usually pay 15 per 1 million damage in DIV 4 one gets 150 for wasting about 50 weps 150 - 250 = -100.. Which is better than - 250 I guess but to claim it hands their tax money back is just bull and you certainly should know it.
simmer down old fella just simmer down
"My system" is also responsible for their being 3.4million in the Bank to drop.
More than once too....
CO's pay quite well. Your failure to earn well from CO's is due to your poor strength/division ratio. For instance, I would earn almost double what you do if we were both in div4. But I'm not, I'm in Div3 with a very strong ratio and am making 3-5times what you do on CO's
Level 100 - Your Mission (I)
reaching level 100
Congratulation for reaching level 100 in eRepublik!
Requirements
Defeat 100 opponents
Reach level 101
Gain 100 strength
Rewards
+100 Strength points
+10% damage
eRepublik Elite Citizen Award
Congratulations you have been elected country president!
AGAIN!
blah blah blah blah
And you still hit harder than that krakken schmuck!
Congratulations on reaching lvl100+, and I'm glad you've finally accepted the fact that strength plays an important role in dmg. Great to see you finally developing some. Spend enough of your mommy's rand and one day you may be able to actually compete with this fremium account that vexes you so 😁
/face palms. That was our fighters not you. Your not more than double my strength I gained 20 k on you
I've >99k strength, you've You failed to even multiply by 2 correctly.
Thanks for playing though 😛
i was 25 k strength and you were 90 k so i gained +- 25 and you only 9 or so. its only a matter of time. also because i am elite i hit 10% stronger .did you take that into account and has permanent multipliers. ohh are he gonna cry. he tried so hard and failed even harder. there there pats sweet stinker on the head.
Releasethe Krakken- "Your not more than double my strength I gained 20 k on you"
Sweet's strength =99k
RTK's strength =49k
Backpeddle all you want krakker, that happened. 😛
if it was not for me sweet you would have quit along time ago. nemesis. yep you have doubly my strength but you dont have doubly my experience or monie mwhahahahahh
Nice Sweet.
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Nice article, you've always been good in proving your own opinion..
Sometimes I agree, sometimes I don't, but you always makes me question myself.
Suspected it was the right move on their part, and I wasn't too fond of our dropping of the work tax. Cicero's old adage about money being the sinews of war is obvious stuff.
Unlike the yanks, we do not have the high resource allotment required to really support such a design.
Socialism functions great within the confines of abundance.
Add a bit of scarcity and they'd be looking at mass exodus if they do not immediately repeal the system.
Cicero was a chump. History has proven time and time again that the true sinew of war is production. Or are you willing to bet on Incan gold against Spanish metallurgy?
Whilst I agree on the importance of production in warfare the suggestion from your example at the end is not quite right. The Spaniards did not beat the Inca because each soldier had access to a hundred new guns and breastplates every day. They were not continuously shipping thousands of guns and breastplates over to their troops in South America. If either of the above were correct then your example would be correct. As far as I know neither was correct.
The Inca did not lose to the Spaniards because they were out-produced, having said that I am not backing the Incas, as they lost and that would be silly.
The infrastructure to make advanced weapons and access to the resources that fuels them is what wins wars. The Spaniards had the means to produce steel armored cavalry and guns. Incans had the biggest mountain of gold anybody had seen for a few hundred years, but no mountable livestock, inferior metals and manufactured ballistic weapons that hurled small stones.
Spanish metallurgy and other technical advancements simply made for far more efficient killing than anything the Incans had, allowing tiny forces to conquer huge territories on the cheap. Compare that with the vast sums of money the Spanish spent on European wars and on their navy, where the production capabilities of rivals were far more on par. Curbstomping natives who haven't grasped real technology is somewhat of a poor example.
Production without money? If you control money, more often than not, you control production, because producers generally want something in return. Only enemy action can stop this. Production means nothing if you don't own it by some means in the first place. That tends to require money. Money for capital investment, for paying workers, for resources you don't control yourself, or money for others to give all those things to the state if it doesn't directly control them. You can replace the means of exchange with coercion, but that tends to be less efficient and sometimes fails entirely.
But you've nailed it there Brian.
"Allowing tiny forces to conquer huge territories on the cheap."
Winning is cheap when you've got a major production imbalance.
Would you drop your last bomb on the enemy's Bank, or their Refinery?
The Americans lost nearly their entire Pacific fleet in a single day, and still won that theatre because the enemies could not reach their manufacturing centres.
The European allies struggled against Germany because the Germans either seized or despoiled their production means. You don't need the money to pay for fuel when you can seize control of the refinery.
French cavalry slaughtered on their home field by dysentery plagued English peasants why? Because the discovery of abundant yew wood's properties for making self-backed bows. Easy to source, easy to craft, easy to fire yet bearing armour piercing effectiveness. There were far better bows (and archers) in the world at the time, but they cost a fortune to train/arm. English Longbowmen were mass-produced archery. They don't need to be great when you can afford to put 200 of them on the tree-line.
Always go for your enemy's means of production.
As for our own work tax, I wouldn't advocate the same level of tax the Americans have for the simple reason that it would drive our already small population away, but I do think it should be higher than it is.
Good article Sweet