10% Work Tax Myths Debunked

Day 2,373, 07:38 Published in USA USA by Hampton H. Hampton

Good Afternoon,

Today’s article has been created to debunk the excuses that were made in response to yesterday’s article as to why the 10% Tax rate is junk.
First, there was the excuse of, “They have more people so they can have a lower tax rate.” Ok, let’s look into that with some stats right here on eRepublik. I will take the top 8 countries as far Power Rankings:

Country - Tax Rate - Population
Argentina - 7 - 6774
Chile - 5 - 4032
Greece - 5 - 3210
Turkey - 3 - 4283
Republic of China - 3 - 1429
Poland - 4 - 6736
Bulgaria - 3 - 3434
USA - 10 - 4439

So that excuse is crap, two countries with more people than us, and if you want to be picky I’ll even say that Chile and Turkey are basically a tie with us. So 5 countries doing more with less or basically the same people AND lower taxes.

Next excuse, “They have huge bot nets” Ok, so? In the end we have more people, which = more tax revenue which should = more power, but alas, no, our tax money is too mis-managed for that. So the big bot farms supply the gov’t with free WRM and Tanks so they can fight. You’re telling me we have no communes or people who donate WRM/Tanks here in the eUSA? Besides, if I am an enemy of Greece and they are occupying my regions I would be working very hard to get the bot/multis banned, just like we do here in the eUSA.
So that excuse is bad.

Next, “They have credit card heroes” They do, and so do we, Legend Has it Henry Pluffer Arundel donated 500 gold worth of CC to the gov’t, and in no way is he the only gold buyer/donator. If China has 1400ish people and we 4400ish people, common sense ratios would tell you that we have more gold buyers than them. Canada has credit card Hero’s out the wazoo these days, but they are not dominating the world. So that’s not a good excuse either. Again, the problem is the money we have is not being used properly.

I like this excuse, “They don’t have a War Chest Fund” Ok, they don’t, that’s nice, they don’t seem to need one or care to get one. We, however, have one. It has 10 million CC in it. It’s full, so lower the taxes already. When you fill you car with gas and the tank is full you don’t keep pump to have some more for later? No, you stop and move on. And again, with 500 gold in donations coming in at a time of need, do we need a War Chest? It’s time to stop the high tax and move on. Also, where is that money going now anyway?

Lastly, “We give the money back to you in handouts and CO’s” Well, the people paying a majority of the taxes are not new players, so they don’t get handouts., and they shouldn’t need them, but don’t take people’s money and tell them your going to give it back to them when there is no way in hell you ever will. The CO’s, well they are not an everyday thing, and shouldn’t be, but CO’s that pay people back what they put in are few and far between. This leads to a secondary excuse of “We can’t win wars without CO’s, so we need the tax money for those” This again speaks directly to my point that the gov’t is completely disorganized and mismanaged if we can’t win a battle without a $10 per mill CO with the fire power we have, so sad.

So there are the big excuses/myths as to way we MUST HAVE the high tax rate, all debunked. I would like to see it at 5%, however I will settle for 6%, any higher is a slap in the face of the people who really pay the tax and help build this country.

On a side note, I’d like to address the insults I directed towards Kemal Egrongrouten (spelling?) It was mostly in response to his article a few days earlier in which he threw a tantrum and called everyone names for disagreeing with the 10% work tax. He lives on a rather high horse and could stand to come down a few notches. The “theft” of the treasury, well unfortunately the eUSA has a long history of that dating back to Ole Harrison Richard’s several terms as PotUS and that gang. The current gang has been in place a long time now and we are getting the same results as before, so it’s kind of a “quacks like a duck looks like a duck is a duck” thing. Do I have proof? No. Are the signs? Yes. And that’s how investigations begin, with signs.

Vote for parties that will lower the tax this month, it’s not needed and the time has come to change that. We don’t need the gov’t to take our money and then tell us they will give it back to us later in some other form. Let us keep our money and build ourselves up into something, buy tanks, become war hero’s, save up cash to expand our companies and so on.

Also, thanks to whomever bought all those votes yesterday, money well spent, good debate.