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Day 2,800, 10:52 • Published in Canada Canada • by olivermellors

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My previous article suggeste😛

The discussion would benefit from receiving information about how many players, of what strength level, are making what “significant” contributions.

We have been groping toward some kind of answer. Here is the context I was thinking of.

The day before the last election, Rylde had expressed his wise opinion that pursuing the war would cost a huge sum of money and that he was ready to spend his 700,000 dollar war fortune to prosecute hostilities if elected. For his part, DMV pledged that he was going to increase eCanada's treasurey through currency arbitrage and other undisclosed means. No one talke about tax increases. No one talked about a group of rich players who were getting sore about the low rate of tax. Everyone seemed to know, however, that the war was monstrously expensive.

Some silly ducks like Dylan Stone suggested that war at any cost wasn't great policy, that it would lead to foreseeable consequences which were not being acknowledged by politicians anxious to benefit from jingoism. Shortly after the election there was an almost immediate ultimatum requiring that congress increase taxes by 100%. Silly duck.

The justification given for the increase in tax was not that unforeseeable costs had surprised anyone. It was, rather, that a number of rich players had grown weary of spending their money, given the previous rate of tax. The message, communicated by the President, was that it was this group of players who needed to be persuaded.

In the last two days or so, it would appear that the group is actually one or two players. One of them is the President himself.

The amounts invested by the President in the days, perhaps a week, after taking office are somewhat nebulous. I have seen 600,000 and I have read other numbers. I have no doubt it is a serious figure. I daresay Rylde probably threw in something less than 700,000 dollars. He wasn't elected after all and turned his attention to re-organizing Cordis for the benefit of eCanadian players. Grosso modo, something like 1 million dollars seems to be a fair present estimate of the private money spent on Orders during that week. Perhaps I am mistaken, but that is precisely why "the discussion would benefit from receiving information about how many players, of what strength level, are making what “significant” contributions."

I remember the campaign of vilification and recrimination launched against Congress members who hesitated to instantly bend to the President's desire, and ultimatum, to raise taxes. It would be good, now, to know if there ever was a "group" of players beyond the President and Rylde who were going to withdraw funding it the DMV's tax policy was not followed.

When I consider that the President may have waged a war that cost 1million dollars per week, it seems unlikely that a tax increase was going to fund that kind of expense. It looks to me that the business about wanting to hold down Germany for a lengthy time wasn't realistic and therefore perhaps not the actual plan.

Finally, if it takes 1 million per week to fight a war, why have we increased our taxes? At the present rate, saving every penny of tax revenue, spending nothing on MPPs, it would take 2.5 months to save enough for 7 days of war. In reality, since we do spend a lot on MPPs, you can upscale the estimate to something like 6 months.

Now I have my own suspicions, healthy ones, that the community leaders aren't this lame brained. I have written this article so that they can provide us with accurate and tangible facts about the past and future including expenditures and policy. I am happy to have them demonstrate that I am an idle chatterer and addle minded fool, since we will all benefit from that demonstration.

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