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Dear brothers & sisters, comrades, members of our eUS community,

I know you all are waiting for my party presidency election campaign article; it's coming later tonight, don't worry.
Meanwhile I am re-publishing excerpts from an exceptional & brilliant article written by William Thomas Riker, where he's speaking about a possible invasion of our homeland and the recent 200% tax-raise. His whole article is a great analysis, not only about the aftermath of Plato's 10th anniversary circus, but gives much insight into recent developments in the whole e-world. This chapter (originally Chapter 6) is what I'm sharing with you and it's defiantly worth reading!
Enjoy!

~Rosa


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POTENTIAL INVASION OF THE USA & THEIR RAISING OF WORK TAX

There is an ongoing debate over attacking the USA, it has been for years now. Every now and then it gains attention of wider public and then quickly dies, mostly because of the following reasons:
- great organizational effort required to defeat a country with 51 original regions;
- farming TP in TWs has a better benefit-cost ratio than conquering a country like the USA;
- economy module as it is (unified storage, global currency, almost non-existing trading embargoes, etc.) fails to provide an economic goal on a country scale, since citizens from all around the world can open companies in the USA and enjoy the bonuses, no need to conquer;
- USA is a member of Pacifica, an alliance that sits between two sides, and an attack would provoke feared reactions from both sides. Or not, since everybody seems disinterested in actually starting something. Anything.
- USA has all the bonuses is a 1% Work Tax heaven. I am sorry, was a tax heaven (discussed below).

Members of both Asteria and Andes, and wider, unofficially dream of airstriking the USA. However, as long as there is an imbalance of alliances whose greatest concern are TWs in which they farm TPs, that attack will never come. The USA is a paper tiger protected only by current game mechanisms which discourage any real competition between countries.

It is funny, a larger Russia almost faced that fate itself, although the consequences were short-lived. To this day, it is unclear why eRepublik Labs divided the USA into 51 federal states, and Russia into 12 regions, when both have federal states (85 for Russia) and regions (4 for the USA). It would be only logical to assume that whichever system is to be applied, it should be applied to both of those countries (all the countries) the same, and in either scenario, Russia ought to have more regions.

Moving to taxes. The latest US Work Tax proposal brought it up from 1% to 3%, and as a result, a lot of non-US citizens have and will leave the States with their companies, and will lose any interest whatsoever in mantaining US territorial cohesion. It is not just about individuals: entire foreign, friendly and non-friendly MUs have their companies there. Tripling the expenses is hardly a way to convince them to stay. For some, it might be cheaper to move companies to countries without full bonues, but with minimum taxes. Others may return companies to their or allied countries so as to not pay taxes to their enemy. All those rich individuals, huge MUs, and entire small and mid sized and powerful countries which stationed their holdings in the States had in their best interest to keep the USA in one piece. We do not anymore.

For the sake of the argument, I will bust some of the myths the US congress has been using to justify the WT increase.
Myth No. 1: The USA needs to replenish its reserves. Last time I checked, there has been an increase in salaries by 10% and product prices by 20-500%, during and after the anniversary. What, that was not enough for you? By the way, what do you need all that extra money for? And remember the black Friday, when companies were 30% off? Do you realize how many extra companies back then got built in the USA? All contributing with taxes.
Myth No. 2: We need it to finance US war effort and programs for our citizens. The only war effort you have been conducting for months now are TWs, which actually bring you more profit through TP medals. Otherwise, why have them? Oh, and let us not forget your CO involvement in Latin America. What, now you are turning into RL America crusading in foreign countries and spending your people's money on it? Nice job! And about those help programs, I have seen them: most of them are permanent one-time handouts, it is not like you are promoting sustainability (using that money to finance companies for the poor). Basically, you are just creating wellfare abusers, and who pays for it? Those who work. RL deja vu, again? Not to mention you have actually

had enough money for those programs all this time, so do not pretened that is what the WT increase is for. Myth No. 3: Other countries with full bonuses also have 3% WT. Hm, all those other countries actually wage wars. I mean, real wars, on their borders. You do not. Another huge difference: the USA is the only country in the game that has all the bonuses in its original regions. Romania, Iran & Co do not, and up to third of their bonuses are alien regions, which they had to built corridors to, and then conquer. And now they have to keep mantaining those bonus regions, as well as corridor regions, against resistance efforts, on which they have to spend massive ammounts of money. Myth No. 4: It is only temporary. US congressmen are

telling us this measure is going to last for about 3 months, hopefully, and then it will be lowered to 1%, or maybe even 2%. You forget that this is a game, and nobody is going to put uf with anybody's whims for 3 months. Especially since here 1 month is equivalent to 4 RL years. 3 months in eRepublik, a game with so many changes all the time, is a long, long time. Not to mention there is no guarantee at all that it will go down, much less back to 1%.
Myth No. 5: It is too expensive to move companies out of the US. Company owners will suffer through it. Most citizens own raw companies, then 10 Gold ones. WT increased from 2,25 cc to 6,75: a 4,5 cc increase, per company. 3 months is 120 days, meaning we will pay at least 540 cc more WT per company. And the period of 3 months is considered to be minimum, it might last even longer. Not to mention that the WT rises with the average salary. For that kind of money raw company owners could move their companies anywhere in the world. It is not too expensive. It does pay off to move them outside the US and stop paying you taxes. No more „temporary“ mantra. We do not hear you. You lost our trust. We are waiting for a little while, to see of the US congress take back their decision.

Work Tax and its average daily revenues in comparable countries: - Serbia 3% - 300.000 cc - Romania 3% - 150.000 cc - USA 1% (before change) - 125.000 cc - Iran 2% - 75.000 cc - China 2% - 75.000 cc Again, bear in mind that Romania and Serbia do not have all the resources in their core regions, and have to invest a lot of money into keeping those regions occupied. Also, they wage other real wars (as real as they can get in the era of TWs). The USA, when comparing military needs, is closer to Iran and China, and yet earns a lot more, with

lower taxes. And it is fairly easy to project further potential growth in the USA (1% WT) since more than half of the new companies worldwide have been opened in the US alone. Until the tax change, that is. So, imgaine if the USA never raised its WT, it would reach Romania in a couple of months. And when it comes to Serbia, that is their maximum output, and very temporary, considering they actually have to spend most of that money to keep their version of Commonwealth under occupation. It is safe to say, until the TW change, the USA was the country that earned most through that particular tax. Others earn more, but they also spend it.

And all those potential future companies, you have lost them all. Like I said, entire MUs and smaller countries have no interest in keeping the US whole anymore. Instead, they will shift their eyes to other countries. Andes and pro-Andes countries will make a greater effort in liberating South America. Before them getting conquered, Argentina and Chile had almost all the Weapons resources and a lot of Food resources, with lesser taxes. Brazil as well. Most businessmen invest only in a single industry, so the argument that the USA has almost all the resources and desrves higher taxes is invalid. I invest in Weapons, and there are other countries with full Weapons resources. Almost all of us think that way. And those countries all have lower average salary, meaning lower Work Tax. We will see how the events will unfold. But one thing is for sure: if the US does not lower the WT back soon, it will lose people's trust forever.

I just wish I could see what those congress member used as arguments on that forum, to have a good laugh. They are either thieves or political, economic and diplomatic know-nothings, and in either case are not suitable to hold that office. How cannot they understand that nobody would mess with the USA, ever, because of the 1% WT? It was eRepublik's version of Switzerlan😛 everybody has their money there and nobody touches it. How dumb the US congressmen could be? Man, I almost forgot that because of the higher WT most workers will avoid working for American employers. Your economy is going down for sure.

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