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Its this guy again according to garm this guy

Now apparently its now said that the US needed to blow its entire treasury and all its money so that it could keep all of its 50 regions or so.

or Thou shalt not have merican regions.

It thereafter needed to quickly raise lots of money by putting its hands in your trousers taking your wallet out of your pocket and fleecing the american tax payer.

How taxes work in normal life
In a normal tax system if my taxes is say 40% I relay it to buyers and increase my prizes. Although we are at a peak players cannot just increase prizes to stomach a tax increase.

Why tax increases should be based on economic not military reasons:

The fact is that although you might get strong economic/military players the reality is that a player will be strong in one area. His focus is on that area. Its not like a good tank donates all of his gold to the treasury so why should a person who effectually have nothing to do with the military pay over most of his earnings to government.

Losing regions means losing bonuses/taxes

Sure but the USA have plenty of regions. It can actually buffer a lot as far as bonuses go.



It can also stomach losing a few regions that pay taxes their equation is 1 state / 52 .

So why the desperate throwing a wrench in the economy and keeping it there policy.


Cash Reserves

At he moment the monetary market is pretty much dead. But the USA must still have had an income of 100000 cc per day So why the sudden splurge that depleted all of your funds.

That is where I see a problem with your financial policies. Your money is redirected to military spending. So each tax dollar goes to some supplies/co or whatever(correct me if im wrong) And the persons cashing in is soldiers and the persons paying is not necessarily soldiers.

You cannot just simply one day empty out your cash reserves. This would just be for me a red flag indicating that there is something wrong with government.

if you had less "FUN" and more diplomats you might in a few months have a meaningful total. But easy gained easy lost I guess. And nothing stops your mu commanders from putting million dollar co's at 200 cc per million damage under 40%. Nothing but you the tax payer. Sure you could have FUN but fun usually means everyone is having fun if someone is sulking in the back because he has to pay for the FUN then that is not FUN that is a few people being a*. In other words the US government is like you the taxpayer taking 40 kids(congress) to Disney world. Yep they will have fun will you? No you wont!





i was looking for the quote where he says what good is a team if the other team has all the hotshots in them. it equates to he american idea of what FUN is according to your government.


How erepublik counter your tax strategy

Zero growth

As we are experiencing a good rate of about 62 cent for wrm this is the stage where most factory owners are expanding at a rate close to 1 alu mine per day.

First off alu mines is totally unprofitable. Q1 food at 23.42 per 250 q1 food is totally unprofitable and add that to the energy you need to produce your wrm.

And I dont think usa factory owners is really expanding at the same rate as the rest of the world.

Zero growth means zero increase in your total work tax.

If you have 300 factory owners and they each day increase their production with 1 alu mine your taxes increase at 5 cc work tax per factory with 1500 cc per day directly and the added production in vat etc. 1500 times 30 is of course 45000 per month increase. But there is key times golden eras where this happens. We are in such an era . Good to see the US government reducing their income though.

Morphing

As the factory owner is put to the sword he typically morphs his businesses. disposing of 5 alu mines bring you 1 rubber plantation. Thereby reducing his financial footprint considerably and effectively daily reducing your actual tax income.

Oh eRepublik you clever beast

Even if he does not do this eRepublik remembers all of your clicks I can now toggle off all factories and only select rubber plantations and only work in them. Tomorrow my choices will remain. In this way a factory owner permanently reduces your taxes.

You selected maximum taxes congrats he counters with minimum work.


Emigration

All the big factory owner needs to do is find a country with similar bonuses but lower taxes and he can move there. He can still fight in his us mu and slurp up your co's. If I take myself I would contribute to your taxes +- 3500 cc a day. And I build my factories without any real bonuses. So your probably lose economic sharks contributing to you 10000 a day...daily.

Young Players

As you can read the young player has to switch of most of his factories. The chance of a young player surviving such a hostile economic environment is even less than those of established bigger factory owners. 250 q1 food would cost him 23.42 to produce. Where is the money left for TG upgrades and weps?


The lowest common denominator

In a proper erep economy alu mines are your main driving force. A player builds up his overall total a day quickest with an alu mine. If your taxes is low enough. Remember 2 alu mines produces 500 wrm and a rubber plantation also produce 500 wrm. 2 alu mines cost 20 gold whereas 1 rubber plantation cost 35 gold. So for a new player alu mines raises his production quickest. It is also 2 times your work tax. Working in an alu mine must produce a profit that is in proportion to a rubber plantation.



Summary

In summary I see your continued tax strategy as a fatal flaw that ignores sound economic principles based on perhaps the advice of old players that have lost touch with the modern game. The USA have a bad economic reputation due to high taxes. The right kind of people do not go to the USA. The right kind of player do not stay in the USA. And most of the normal people loses faith and trust in their government as you create an impression of a government that can massively spend on military expenses but at the cost of your economy. And worst of all the USA is simply put a BAD INVESTMENT. Good economic players will get the flock out your country if they own a calculator.