Grand Theft USAF

Day 1,430, 03:53 • Published in USA USA • by Stranger Here Myself


Those of you checking the Administation page of the eUnited States lately could see two tax proposals there being voted by the Congress - the body claiming to represent your interests.

Vanek26's proposal
Gnilrap's proposal

These two proposals will raise the income tax on both Food & Weapons to the maximum: 25%.

Now let’s see how they will affect the total potential tax revenues to be budgeted by the Congress (aka the amount of money the government can spend):



No, don’t bend closer to the monitor, it is what you see: despite the 10-percentage-point raise of the income tax, budgetable revenues will not increase by a single cent. Wtf? They are raising taxes and that won’t earn the state a cent? Exactly. Insane, isn’t it? The reason is that the Congress can only donate 99,999$ a day to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office, an organization tax revenues are donated). And tax revenues are already over that cap (~130k a day).

Now let’s take a look at how these proposals will affect the purse of the average American worker.



The chart above shows the price structure of a tank (Q5 Weapon) as of around 20:00 eRep time - on the eUS market. In other words, the distribution of the money you pay for it.

The biggest part of that price is the raw material cost. Your click on the company of your employer turns 50 Weapon Raw Material units into a tank. 50.9% of the final price is the raw material. Everything above that is the value added by your work click - and of course your employer’s clicks on posting offers on the Job Market, purchasing the raw materials and selling the finished goods on the market.

Your employer - that evil capitalist pig taking the much envied ‘hefty profits’ - then pays you. 33.55% is his/her Labor Cost - the money he must pay to get you click ‘Work’. But hey, looking back the chart your net wage is only 29.2%! Indeed. The rest goes to taxes. With the proposals before the congress it will be only 25.8%. The rest is taken by the CBO - to be redistributed among eUS citizens. No, wait! You took a job on the Job Market (shame on you… you … worker!), so you will not receive a single cent back from that. It will fund the tax evading communes of the USAF and the “CBO-approved” militias. Yes, that share of the value of your work is indeed bigger that the ‘hefty profits’ of your evil capitalist employer. This is what they call ‘commune efficiency’. We might as well call it an open theft. You do the work, they take the harvest and spend it on their own development. Note: neither the 1st ranked eUS military unit, nor the much-criticised US Military are included in that circle of beneficiaries - let alone all those "little" militias who receive no state funds at all.



When Vanek26’s proposal goes through, the price structure will (theoretically) change like this. Theoretically, as lower profits will most probably act as a disincentive for employment, so wages are very probable to fall. The government will take a bigger slicers of your shrinking pie. Take - but not use. Congress will still be unable to take out more than 99,999$ of the Treasury daily.



Bt that’s the same everywhere, this is how the game works, isn’t it? Not quite. Take one of the most robust economies of the game for example. Poland has a flat 1% income tax rate as well as 1% VAT. Let’s check their price structure:



Zany. These clownish Poles are surely committing a national level suicide, following Eli Crownover’s logics them being wiped is surely imminent. But wait! Aren’t those guys keeping half of Europe invaded for months? Weren’t they crossing the Atlantic to invade this quasi-Bolshevik Disneyland here?

But the net wage share is still lower there then in the eUS, isn't it? sure. But let's see how big that pie really is. The following chart shows the purchasing power of wages in the eUS, Poland and Indonesia. The first column is how many tanks you could buy for your daily wage. The second indicates how many Gold you make in a 30-day-month.



Got the point? Nevermind, they are surely doing it wrong, maths might hurt your brain, go and take part in Gnilrap’s trolling contest instead … and of course, keep paying for his drinks and shut up.

Your economic affairs will be taken care for by the the organization of immense experience, unprecedented insight and almost divine wisdom - at least that’s what they claim. They are called the Economic Council. Yes, you are perfectly right , you never elected an Economic Council - let alone authorized them to take your money and give half of it to the ~8% of the eUS population.



Yes, it is the same Economic Council whose declared “sole purpose will be to advise those who ask for advice”. Of course you haven’t elected them. “Neither Congress nor the Executive have control over the EC”.

In turn, the Economic Council practically has total control over the budget and the taxes. In other words, it is not your damned business at all how those ‘economic gurus’ take your money and who they give it.

In the early phase of this current debate Congressman portocolombus inquired about when the EC would come out with their opinion. EC Chairperson Evry replie😛

“When we're done deciding on the best course for taxes for the country.”

That might simply mean they are trying to set their minds up about how to advice the Congress. However, if your read the exchange between Vanek26 and Dan Wang (who questions the need for entirely the business of deciding on taxes to the Economic Council) you’ll see how any attempts to reinstall Congress’ control over fiscal affairs is immediately and agressively rebutted by certain circles. And those ‘certain circles’ somehow happen to be rather identical with the primary beneficiaries of the current Socialist nanny state: the prominents of the USAF. Checking the most vocal supporters of the current (maxed out) income centralisation you’ll find the same tags: EC, NSC, and various USAF commanders and captains. Some might fancy calling them the ‘elites’. In fact they are the ones deciding about practically everything important in-game. And there not necessarily anything wrong with that.

But only as long as their claim their governance “best protects the interests of America, her allies, and the business for both” is true. Howver, the current proposals raise some serious doubts about that.

We’ve already discussed here how the new proposals will:

- NOT increase budgetable revenues by a single cent
- HURT he purchasing power of everyone taking a job

But why on Earth would those ‘brilliant minds’, the crème de la crème of eUS economist, those most trusted gurus propose such a useless and dumb proposal? Were they drugged by public enemy number one Pth? Is that some conspiracy by the evil JCS?

Let’s quote the chairperson and the EC members again:

“Basically, Income taxes inactive players while VAT taxes the actives. We want to tax those not contributing as it would encourage them to participate more and join a commune which essentially shelters them from the Income taxes. VAT needs to be low to encourage weapon and food buying which increases our damage output.” - Evry

Yes, believe your eyes: if you take a job and work, you’re an ‘inactive’. Even if it is exclusively you funding the development of those who evade the same taxes by joining the communes. The ultimate goal is to force you to be ‘active’ - evading taxes and depend on the supplies give to you by those brilliant economic gurus - buying you weapons for other people’s taxes. This is what they call ‘commune efficiency’. And it DOES work. As long as they don’t run out of other people’s money. Google “Nicola Pozzi”.

“remove a portion of the burden from those who work for only $1 a day.” -Eli Crownover

“We would still be bringing in approximately the same daily revenue, but would just be making life a little less expensive for the active members of military units that are currently working in communes.” - Eli Crownover

This is the real explanation why they proposed this perfectly useless tax table: forcing those maintaining any traces of independence from them - into their communes where supplies and employment could be controlled without the annoying competition from the private sector.



The whole tax reform is practically a scam. They take a huge share of your wage and then point out how ‘inefficient’ the private sector was. It is pretty simple to check whether your ‘commune’ really does care about you, or is simply scamming you to fund someone else: if you received less than 233.8$ (or equivalent supplies) yesterday - you received the exact value of your work click (without government funds). If you received less than that- you are scammed.

But don’t worry. We all are.