Liberty and Rheinland Trade Embargo.

[Chakotay]

Call first to CEO Chakotay of the [KoF]

I sat at the chair in front of the committee and put my dossier on the desk, I was fairly confident that I had a good case to answer and that hopefully the Government higher up would make the right decisions.
Ideally I was hoping the trade embargo would be dropped altogether and let our organisation get back to normal business. Our profits had dropped by almost 40% since the embargo started and we now had 2 ships impounded because of the Navy embargo. Alternatively I was hoping that the embargo would be relaxed so that Liberty based trading companies at least would be allowed safe passage with any legal cargo.
The first question was about finances and the economy of Liberty.
I explained to the committee that all the Liberty based companies had recently reported business profits were down for the last 6 monthly period and I presented evidence showing that [KoF] profits were down by 38.5%
I pointed out that wages and bonus payments to our pilots had been trimmed as a result, and that a few pilots had voted with there feet and left to start new jobs with rival Bretonian organisations.
I also made the valid point that corporation tax returns to the Liberty government were also down by a similar margin, since taxes paid were directly related to the company profits.

The other bigger Liberty corporations were also returning lower tax payments to the government and were reducing the headcount required for efficient production.
With lower tax revenues received the government was now looking at reducing allocation cash to military, education, health and other departments. An alternative would be to raise taxes.
The embargo was hurting the people of Liberty and should be lifted.

I completed the morning session and was excused for the lunch break.
After lunch the floor was opened for other commentators and interested parties to have a say on the economic impact of the Embargo.
Leaders from Universal Shipping, Ageira, InterSpace Comerce and DSE gave similar reports to my own.

Does anyone else wish to comment on the Economic effect of the continuing trade embargo?

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