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dannydan1208 . Why is a man who has been a member of the British Patriotic Party for just 13 days and a member of Congress for just a week so important? Because come tomorrow, if 
ArchDukeJohn wins, danny will find himself holding the most important Political office in Britain besides President - Chancellor. Sadly Lopnogob had to step down due to real life issues (which I wish him the best of luck with) and whoever becomes President must appoint a new Chancellor, and John has announced that Danny will be his Chancellor, so I wanted to sit down with the man who may find himself thrust from the backbenches of Congress and in to his first ever cabinet post - in charge of the economy.
AJ99: dannydan1208, thank you very much for agreeing to an interview. First of all, what do you think of how the economy has been managed since Tulip became President?
DD1208: I have not been on long enough to know fully but it seems to be in a okay state and managed well although infighting in TPP has caused some problems as of late.
AJ99: One of your leader's flagship policies is that of the minimum wage. As Chancellor, how would you make that work?
DD1208: We would make that work by making many allies and constantly being involved in a war,one of our ones or a allies, and having a constant need for supplies. And also If national than offer jobs at 15 GBP and check other comps are doing the same. If they have jobs at 1 GBP then we will pull them up about it.
AJ99: Your leader, in our interview yesterday, spoke about looking for peace in our current wars, going to war only if necessary and having a full referendum beforehand so war is limited to when it is necessary. Are you telling me that's not true? Also, what about MU companies which are paying in supplies, or companies which simply can't afford the minimum wage?
DD1208: We never said we would force the MU companies to pay the 15 we said we would just pull them up about it and the companies that cannot afford it will be supported through subsidies and the wars will be allies wars and we won't start a war unless completely necessary.
AJ99: I accept the subsidies - which I completely agree with, but surely if you're pulling the MU companies up about it, you are either a. trying to force them or b. wasting time? And as for wars, what you've said is completely contradictory. You're going to have constant war, but only necessary wars? There won't always be wars that are for proper purposes or where we're attacked first. So how can you have constant war but only necessary war?
DD1208: No us as a country won't start wars but if our allies do it's fair game.
AJ99: And if there are none of those? Also, why should we need war for a strong and productive economy? This plan just does not stack up? Also, you haven't answered on the issue of MU companies?
DD1208: War is not needed at all times but it causes people to buy more weapons, more food and more gifts which incites a strong economy and if there is no war we could always sell the unneeded goods to foreign MU and the only time food, gifts and weapons are actually needed is during war time unless people are stockpiling
AJ99: What about during tournaments when there is no real consequences to losing? Those things happen frequently and have the same effect on the economy as real war without the devastating impact. And you still haven't answered on the issue of MU companies?
DD1208: The MU have to either prove they give their members enough fight off or otherwise they will be forced to pay for the costs of at least some of the supplies. The tournaments help but we have to help our allies which as well as stimulating the economy will keep them as allies for defensive wars.Also when the tournaments aren't happing we can keep our citizens in a constant supply of exp and damage.
AJ99: You mentioned recent TPP infighting over tax reform, to which the Party Meeting agreed to follow as a Policy and use our large number of seats to implement as national law through Congress. What is your view of taxation and what needs to be changed in the tax system? What will you do with tax if you become Chancellor?
DD1208: My view on taxation is to keep it the same as in it's current state it is strong.
AJ99: But don't you think that we can afford at the moment to cut taxes on the most essential of industries and raise them on less essential items, that can be deemed as luxuries - a so called "Luxury Items Tax"?
DD1208: We will discuss as a party the taxation when the time comes.
AJ99: But if you're in Government, surely you should know what Policy you're going for? And if you're in Government, surely the opinion of Congress, the rest of the Government and the public is more important? Would you consider holding a taxation referendum?
DD1208: Yes on the referendum.
AJ99: On what element of taxation, specifically would you be looking to have a referendum on? What would the question be, and what outcome would you, as Chancellor, be looking for?
DD1208: We would have a referendum on the "luxury tax" as you call it and the question would be do you believe that it is positive for the country to have a higher tax for luxuries or do you believe it to be negative and I believe that it would be better to have a higher tax on luxuries as it would lead to a fairer society and you and your party would agree with that as socialists.
AJ99: Your leader talks about 50 GBP for every citizen. As Chancellor, do you agree with this? How the hell will you make it work? And how on Earth will we recover to 3000 GBP cost of doing so (85.2% of our entire treasury)? Don't you think that this is an unnecessary, dangerous and reckless policy?
DD1208: We can make the money back through taxation as people will spend the money on supplies from British companies which will then be able to afford to produce more which will then have the knock on affect of causing more people to be able to buy supplies and again your party and you as socialists should agree with redistribution of the wealth. Members of tpp and all socialists should vote for John as he is the only candidate offering socialistic values
AJ99: Oh I can completely agree that the economics behind it are sound enough, for the Policy itself is risky. It's a strong Socialist Policy and something that I can understand the logic in, but it's going to take us a very long time to make up 3000 GBP. If we do this we'll have just 520.94 GBP left. If there's suddenly a drop in population or some sort of major economic crisis, Britain wouldn't be in a position to deal with it - that is an undeniable fact, surely? A short term, expensive policy like that will have a short term, small boost and a long reaching negative impact. Surely a better Policy is a weekly donation of a smaller amount, to have the same economic impact, but over a longer, and more sustainable, period of time, paid for with modest income tax increases in most industries (which people will then get some of back anyway through this weekly Government payment to them)? What you're proposing is short term, short-sighted, will only a small positive impact, and will put Britain in long term danger until we can make back the money.
DD1208: That would work and John himself said that it was just a idealogical thought we are always able to adapt and take on policies that are better, we are a moderately new party when it comes to running for cp and even congress so polices will come and go and if we don't win cp this month we can always put forward the improvements next month.
AJ99: Do you support your leader's proposal for nationalised and state-owned companies to provide jobs for immigrants? Can it work when there are already so many companies lacking employees?
DD1208: Yes I support his discussion on nationalised companies as with the nationalised company we can guarantee a fair pay.
AJ99: dannydan, thank you.
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