An associate recently asked me, "Why did those [Relax Assisted] Suicide bills help our debt that much?" He was referring to the Mass Suicide of August 2014, which took place just a day or two before The Clout Report started taking regular statistics. Let's take a look at what has happened with the population and its growth since then.
At the beginning, Population drops sharply, and the Population Growth Rate is decreasing by more than eight percent. Of note is that population is only updated by census on Tuesdays. Meanwhile, transpartisan efforts reigned in PGR and have since managed to keep it at a warm 2% or so. According to World Bank, the real-world United States of America's PGR is about 0.7%.
In mid-August, several heavily-multiplied Relax Assisted Suicide Restriction (RASR) bills were passed, including at least one 512x. As one might expect, this caused population growth to drop drastically. Indeed our statistics catch the end of this drop, with a population loss of thirteen million--more than the Holocaust--in one week. While this may be difficult to stomach for some, it did drastically reduce the debt as well, to the tune of nearly 100 trillion dollars. That is a one followed by fourteen zeros: $100,000,000,000,000. But, how?
According to Clout: The Game Wiki - Bills, RASR has the following effects:
At the beginning, Population drops sharply, and the Population Growth Rate is decreasing by more than eight percent. Of note is that population is only updated by census on Tuesdays. Meanwhile, transpartisan efforts reigned in PGR and have since managed to keep it at a warm 2% or so. According to World Bank, the real-world United States of America's PGR is about 0.7%.
In mid-August, several heavily-multiplied Relax Assisted Suicide Restriction (RASR) bills were passed, including at least one 512x. As one might expect, this caused population growth to drop drastically. Indeed our statistics catch the end of this drop, with a population loss of thirteen million--more than the Holocaust--in one week. While this may be difficult to stomach for some, it did drastically reduce the debt as well, to the tune of nearly 100 trillion dollars. That is a one followed by fourteen zeros: $100,000,000,000,000. But, how?
According to Clout: The Game Wiki - Bills, RASR has the following effects:
Relax Assisted Suicide Restrictions GDP Growth Rate: -0.0001 Population Growth Rate: -0.0002 Public Surplus: +$40000 Public Happiness: +1
These multi-conferred RASR bills, along with a number of heavily-conferred Pay Down National Debt bills, slashed the debt down over a few days just before our data begins. Indeed, it was this tumultuous economic time that prompted our initial collection of data.
Of special note is that RASR's economic benefits are not necessarily beneficial over the long-run. The $40K surplus is only added once, while the GDP--and thus revenue--decreases cumulatively. Nevertheless, the Great Suicide and its supporters--dubiously referred to as 'Team Suicide'--did manage to reign in the run-away debt. Now that debt is mostly in hand, and population and GDP are increasing, what will happen next? Find out first in The Clout Report, with all your statistics, charts and graphs updated daily, and new articles weekly.
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