When money comes first
Day 3,011, 13:55
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by Redi Jodikku
Dear readers, today I’m writing to point out something quite obvious but that most of you probably have not realized it yet. You all know that last month we had a huge war against 4 countries at the same time (we did not fight them all directly, but that was their aiming). As expected, that meant a huge expense in COs from our side, an expense that we wanted to replenish as fast as possible.
To do this, we firstly passed a law to increase the work tax, the tax that more revenue gives us, from 15% to 18% , after just one day we decided that it was not enough, and we went for max taxes, 25% in work tax. I have to say that no big country has such taxes, most part of average to big countries have their work tax between 3% and 6%, being very rare the cases where those countries exceed that tax.
The strategy seemed reasonable to the majority of the congress, but I’m afraid they did not take into account the (not so)long term effects, a lot of players leaving our country and moving their big farms and TP damage somewhere else. You just need to take a look at the graphic.
Remember that the first increase was 21 days ago, between the 26th and 27th. Take into account that I'm not talking about "dead" citizens but about people leaving and going somewhere else.
Accumulated graphic of departures minus people joining in the States in the last month
The numbers are clear and they can’t be worse, more than 44 players left our country recently (more have done it, but this is the net rating as also some players have arrived). A community can’t be based on money, it should be based on a participative player basis and a healthy community, with those exaggerated taxes we not only kept farmers outside of our borders for a long time already, but we are now kicking ours out, to a more sustainable economy. But that’s what happens when we are too greedy and shortsighted.
We have an incredibly important comparative advantage, we have full bonuses in our cores, which means a lot of stability. That stability could be bad for soldiers and part of the community, but definitely not for the farmers.
Maybe it’s time to think again where are we going and where do we want to be. It’s still not too late to switch our model.
All the info related to departures and arrivals can be found here : https://www.erepublik-deutschland.de/en/tools/countryinfo/24/society
Stay safe and think alternatively.
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i'm proposing 50% meta taxes if the admins won't let you raise it over 25%
everyone who isn't paying should be blacklisted from the forums
15% is allready crazy if somebody want to go to country with 100/100/60 and 6% contact me
this is logical result from actions taken to address "we wanted to replenish as fast as possible". Isn't it obvious that you have to return back the numbers and increase the incomes slowly ?
Appart from it, isn't it obvious that you need players and not just money? It's a vicious circle, the more players leave your country to join another one the more damage you will need to buy and more money will be spent.
As such, the tax rates have already been lowered. And are planned to continue to be lowered at certain reserve levels.
If these numbers are legit, I think that we should investigate lowering them faster. 44 active members net loss is catastrophic with such low activity.
It hasn't been brought up in Congress again, yet.
Proud to be one that left.
Voted and endorsed.
I might not be far behind ya! Good on ya for taking the leap!
That is some really long term thinking, I do wish there was a country that would make emigrating from the usa easier!
ohai
Si signor, good point of view.
Vo7e
Great article. Voted!
v/s
One day, the income will start to drop (unless it already started to do so), and then they will notice... but by that time, it will be too late.
Good job for bringing this up, hopefully there will be some sort of reaction on this!
I would have left too when I wasn't so lazy. I hardly play this game and I do not care for the money I have. Sadly others do go away. Maybe the ones that plays almost solely on the eUSA forums even do not notice this or do not care. IDK.
Beqaditos Rulez 😛
problem is political players do not play other areas of the game. so for them letting other people pay for their game is acceptable. its not as easy though to get into under countries. i did not emigrate from the usa but had to settle for lower bonuses in food at the end. still great deal and country. but others would just buy their way over. usa because of high taxes would have been last country i would have considered.
but just in case usa did not pick this up. the war that the 4 countries initiated against u was successful as it will lead to the demise of the usa in due time. perhaps it was never about winning any regions? perhaps lol
USA isn't exactly the easiest country to get citizenship either...
Tried to contact your CP and MOFA at some point in past few months about getting your CS without even getting an answer. I know I wasn't the only one to whom this happened.
It's also important to note that only by working I represent more than 2% of Brasil's tax revenue (on day 3011)
There's a form they probably wanted you to fill out haha
probably but they could have sent me the link or something
btw I agree with Jordic. no way in hell I'm going to the USA with those taxes
maybe it's the goal... : P
love or leave
Or change it 😃
The goal is to be alone on their country ruling no one from the forum? Would be a bit weird.
The tax was repealed, because they weren't making money. They didn't even care that it was killing the nation.
Is it still max taxes?
It's 18% atm (still way too high)
The rent is too damn high!
But really tho why is 18% too high and what is your alternative?
My alternative is to do maths and set it at a point where we could encourage foreign players to come and farm here. I have not done the numbers but I guess it would be around 5% or 6%
the second increase, from 18% to 25%, was sold to Congress based on a prediction of imminent invasion and total wipe. Max Taxes had to be collected for a short time, until we lost so many regions we would be paying our Occupiers to occupy us. then we would drop all taxes to 1%.
this is what The Experts said. this is why we increased the Work Tax to 25%.
after the Four Day War was over, and we were no longer in danger of losing regions, those same Experts clung fiercely to the Max Tax-- even after it came out that they had sold us a bill of goods, that the whole "imminent wipe" story was a lie to get the Max Tax by any means necessary.
while I fully agree that we must train our focus on players, and the money will naturally follow, basing the argument on the Max Tax episode is a weak foundation.
it is not the Max Tax episode that is wrong, but the whole manner of thought that the players do not matter.. that they need no say in guiding our nation, that The Experts are ever wise and omnipotent.. this is what's going wrong around here.
the Max Tax episode was but a single ripple in time, a time which has gone on long enough, a time which must come to an end.
No matter what the reserves as long as we rush to use CO in even non threatening campaigns we will NEVER HAVE ENOUGH RESERVES.
lmfao
If it wasn't for the Blacksheep party, the work tax would still be at the maximum.
https://www.erepublik.com/br/article/hacker-para-conseguir-gold-e-brls-no-erepublik--2583773/1/20