V for Victory: Artela for President, Foreign Affairs Update, Taxation
Vanek26
Sup America,
The weather has been beautiful out, except if you live in Minnesota, apparently they had a blizzard. The Stanley Cup playoffs have started, best hockey in the world. I guess basketball is in their playoffs as well, but who cares, boring. Hockey is where its at. Anyhow, eRepublik!
Artela has won the primaries of the USWP, Feds, WTP, and I'm told most of the 6th parties, making her the candidate for May. Dr. Luis Senterio won in AMP, while Tenshibo had strong showings and I believe came in 2nd in most of them. Artela will do a good job with the tough foreign affairs storm that is brewing.
I know a lot of people don't like the unity process, but as someone that ran before it, it REALLY isn't that much different, the key was getting party endorsements, same as now. Oblige and Glove, one with 2 good months of being CP and the other with a lot of readers of his paper, were the only people that ever won with less nominations then their opponent to the best of my knowledge. There is a good thread on the forums, here, and I picked out a good post from our resident favorite Aussie, Tim Holtz, about the results of PTO, Liquid Oxygen had a good one as well, I hope you read it. I also noted on the Fed forums that despite the AFA's slow decrease in voting power, it still is not enough to guarantee a win for a non-PTO candidate.
The big event of yesterday was the Resistance War in Saxony. Romanian units led by FAR, the famous military force, I believe one of the oldest in the game, as well as many fighters from Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, USA, Croatia, and many others, liberated the region and cut Poland in two, destroying their economic bonuses. Poland and Germany have a treaty, so Poland will be restored Saxony shortly, but it still is enjoyable to watch a good battle, as well as you can see who believes in what.
Saxony was a perfect example of what Greece, pro-EDEN Romanians, Croatians, can accomplish while fighting against TWO in concert with Bulgarians, Americans, and others. I hope they choose to do more of that in the future. On the other hand, Argentina seems to be shedding the facade that they are pro-EDEN and is openly just anti-CoT, which these days seems to be pro-TWO. Their government shouted to fight for Poland, because 'Germany is pro-CoT so we fight against Germany.' Meanwhile, they have no regions and are wiped. I guess fighting for Poland's bonuses against a country not even in CoT is more important then actually fighting against CoT for you know, their own country. But whatever, to each their own I guess.
Poland losing their bonuses segues into my next topic, taxation! How exciting. So, you might have noticed Evry proposed a law to raise the VAT tax on food. This is an EC experiment to see where on the Laffer Curve we are at in terms of VAT taxes in an effort to raise more revenue. The United States is around 3rd to 4th in total revenue daily, and around 5th in per capita revenue. The top countries in term of revenue are Argentina, Serbia, and we tend to have around the same as Poland, all countries with much higher populations then us. However, none of these countries are above us in per capita taxation, suggesting inefficent taxation compared to us, and the nations above up per capita like Slovenia, Sweden, Chile, and China. If you don't know what the Laffer Curve is, basically as taxation increases, so do revenues until a certain point, where revenue actually decreases since there is less incentive to actually do the work. So by raising the VAT tax 2%, we can see if our revenue responds by going up or down, and thus determine what side of the curve we are on. I'm no expert on the economics, please direct your questions to Kemal Ergenekon, the one with the PhD's on the subject. As for bonuses, it seems to me that bonuses have less of an effect then population on revenue, since Argentina doesn't even have any regions but still has high revenue, but Poland offers us a good example. I've asked the Kemal and folks to pay close attention to Poland's finances over the next few days now that they went from 100/100 bonuses to a mere 30/10, which should shed some light on the economic effects of high and low bonuses. I can tell that you are nodding off, so I'll close with BUELLER, BUELLER...
I'll try to write another article in the next few days to end my term, so hopefully this won't be my last article.
In any case, stay classy America.
V
Comments
V for Victory o/
Looking forward to Artela's term!
You mean 3.5 good months as CP.
Rude.
I think he means 2 good months....which is generous.
RUDE!
Actually I said 2 months of being CP, aka passive voice. You happened to be CP in 2 good months, not you made them good, is what I am trying to say 😛
They were good. Also months 3 and 4 were good too.
Excellent terms my friend. Thank you!
Voted. Good job Vanek.
Good read, voted hard
:rotocafe:
Meow! ♥
v+ for the Laffer Curve
Their government shouted to fight for Poland, because 'Germany is pro-CoT so we fight against Germany.' Meanwhile, they have no regions and are wiped. I guess fighting for Poland's bonuses against a country not even in CoT is more important then actually fighting against CoT for you know, their own country.
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rofl : D
I remember the times that Cerb and IS declared themselves anti-EDEN although the USA did not had EDEN attacking them. Argentina is wiped by CoT so they are doing their best to enter TwO and supporting TwO countries appears normal under the circumstances. Its easy to see the basic reasons why Argentina is anti-CoT, irrespective of their on faults on the Chile-Argentina conflict.
Not sure you understand. All you wrote is correct but Argentina's official reasons are not "We just want to go 2" they are some ridiculous stuff like "We're just going to fight against Germany which is CoT".
Hipocrisy has always been incredibly funny, atleast for me.
Great job, nice article!
Exciting and excellent two terms.
Good job!
o7 for economics
Most good stories have a problem at the crux. Anyone hoping for a happy ending?
v!
Great!
Sooooooooooooooooooo, when are we going to hunt Whales?
voodoo economics
Solid, great job.
"As for bonuses, it seems to me that bonuses have less of an effect then population on revenue...."
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I am but a single player, and will never be more than one player, so my population will never change. For ME, bonuses are all important. As bonuses increase so does my revenue. I do hope that the administration remembers to consider the benefit to players, not only the benefit to government. A minor quibble - nice article.
kind regards
avrukh was here
so did AnDreIceCold
iI am the only rl american citizen on the cp ballot. artela is a british ONE ptoer
I thought that your party welcomed all immigrants. Why should it matter that you are the "only rl american citizen on the cp ballot"? Don't you have many serbs in your party (a PEACE/Phoenix/ONE/TWO country for those who may have forgotten), so why should it matter that Artela is rl British?
Oh right, you're a self serving hypocrite.
Serbs were always our friends 🙂
''Saxony was a perfect example of what Greece, pro-EDEN Romanians, Croatians, can accomplish while fighting against TWO in concert with Bulgarians, Americans, and others...'' wise words Mr.Potus o/
V for Victory o/
Looking forward to Artela's term! x2
lol @ loland 30/10, looking fwd to Kemal's analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYW_lPlekiQ
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nice article,voted
vote
Great article!
Great article!
woo i got a mention
That thread was started by one sexy beast.
Great article 🙂
voted
Nice Article. Please attack someone before I lapse into a coma.
Thanks for these nice terms \o/
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