The knight in the big world of American TV series

Chapter 1012 Unknowingly Becoming a Substitute (Please ask for a monthly ticket!! Please recommend!! Please subscribe!!)

"No, no, doctor, although it would be a good thing if you could provide more funds, it is not for this reason that I invite you." Of course Benjamin was also troubled by money, but Tresk did Donated a lot, Benjamin has not reached the point of catching a big family. "I have more important things for you to do, and this matter is even related to the survival of the entire human race."

Hearing what the president said was so serious, Cusk also restrained his expression and looked at President Benjamin seriously.

Currently, Trask is the leader of the X-team, and he is also the head of the government-funded 'Sentinel' program.The Sentinel Project is a weapon that uses intelligent machines to fight against mutants.But for now, Trask has adjusted the purpose of the Sentinel project, changing the target from mutants to enemies of humanity.

After learning about the vastness of the universe and the fragility of human beings, Trask realized how ridiculous and small his previous views were.After breaking out of the shackles of the past, he saw another prospect of the Sentinel Project from the mutants, which is to combine the characteristics of the mutants to develop a super sentinel to fight against threats that threaten the survival of all human beings.

Of course, due to the change of the plan goal, many previous plans and achievements need to be overthrown and redone. This is also the reason why Tresk has no money.

Even if this project is government investment.

Benjamin's attitude towards Trask is completely different from that of Steve and Carter. Although Trask is just a businessman, he has a lot of cooperation with the government, and anyone who has been in contact with Trask will know that the dwarf in front of him is like a giant. Vision, and a pattern that ordinary people can't match.

This is a dwarf in body and a giant in mind.

In a word, Benjamin trusted Trask.At least Trask was more trustworthy than Carter and Steve.

So Benjamin didn't play any tricks to fight for the initiative, but directly stated his request.

"You mean S.H.I.E.L.D. How is this possible?" Trask was well-informed, but he didn't expect the president to tell him that S.H.I.E.L.D. was conducting a secret research that could destroy the world. The siege of monsters in the sky is the result of this research... What the hell...

S.H.I.E.L.D., Tresk really had to get in touch.It's just that the ideas between the two are too far apart. They even did some things to recruit S.H.I.E.L.D., which caused Tresk to get into some trouble. If it wasn't for his good relationship with the government, he might really be recruited. , so he himself has a very bad impression of S.H.I.E.L.D.

But one thing, he also admitted, that is SHIELD, is indeed committed to protecting the world.

Even if their means are not so aboveboard.But so what?Could it be that what he did with Trask was aboveboard?

As long as the purpose is good, he doesn't care about the process and means.

Now the President told him that S.H.I.E.L.D. might destroy the world.

Trask could not be shocked.

However, he didn't doubt that the president framed it. After all, such a big matter can't be said to be framed.

"Nothing is impossible. S.H.I.E.L.D. has been out of the control of the federal government a long time ago, and they are out of control. They want to bring the whole world under their control... Speaking of which, the federal government has something to do with it Shirking the responsibility, actually allowing such an organization to expand without hindrance, they are no longer satisfied with the current power, they want more."

Benjamin can actually quite understand SHIELD’s approach. For any large organization, no matter what its purpose is, its own survival and development are the most basic and primitive desires of this organization. This has nothing to do with who will preside over it. Organization has nothing to do with it.

When the FBI was first established, it was just a small organization with no bird, but after decades of development, it has long since broken away from the so-called 'police' category at the beginning, and has become a collection of intelligence, law enforcement, and violence. A super organization with a series of responsibilities such as machines, does the FBI need to monitor domestic politicians? Does the FBI need to manipulate politics? Does the FBI need to suppress other intelligence organizations?What the hell, the FBI and the CIA are not on the same line at all, but there have been a lot of disputes and competitions between the two.

This is the logic of existence of super organizations.Constant expansion, continuous plunder of power, never-ending.

Fortunately, Hoover is dead, otherwise, the FBI doesn't know what will happen.

But understanding is understanding, Benjamin still wants to prevent such things from happening.Just like the ecology of nature, once a certain party develops out of balance, the entire ecology will be in crisis.If S.H.I.E.L.D. continues to develop, it will inevitably threaten the federal government, not to mention that they still do such things, it is simply a joke about the life and death of all human beings!

So it must be clamped down, even...destroyed!
"Is that so..." Tresk didn't expect SHIELD to have developed to this point.A secret organization originally born out of the federal government has threatened the existence of the federal government, and even the existence of the entire human race. It really needs to be curbed!
"I see, Mr. President, what do you want me to do?"

"Squad X, I need them to be ready, this time the target is S.H.I.E.L.D. Therefore, I now authorize that Squad X will separate from the Pentagon and become an agency directly under the federal government, tentatively named Secret Service X, directly responsible to me. You The mission is to recruit personnel and start an investigation against S.H.I.E.L.D.! When necessary...destroy it by force!"

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In fact, during this day, Benjamin not only met with Carter and Trask, but also the FBI and CIA, but they only targeted a very small number of groups, and these groups were all screened after layers.

As a mature politician, Benjamin never intended to put all his eggs in one basket.It will not allow the Shadow Bureau or the X Agent to develop into the second SHIELD.

Benjamin has already planned to completely split the assets of S.H.I.E.L.D. and divide them among several agencies at the same time, so as to achieve a balance.

This is also Laomei's usual method to prevent the concentration of power.

Create more checks and balances.

As it turns out, this works, if a bit bloated.But it doesn't matter, the United States can handle it.

And S.H.I.E.L.D. knew nothing about it.No, it's not like they don't know anything, at least they know that the federal government's actions have been mediocre recently, but the relevant information is very scarce, and they have no way of knowing what the federal government is doing.

But combined with the current situation, the intelligence analysis part of S.H.I.E.L.D. concludes that the federal government is making some big moves for post-disaster reconstruction.

Nick Fury instinctively felt that there was a problem with such a conclusion, but he couldn't say where there was a problem.

After all, he couldn't have imagined that in just one day, SHIELD would suddenly flip from the role of world protector to world destroyer... This span is too big, even if Nick Fury's brain is big , it is impossible to think of this step.

After all, he himself has always believed that the cause of himself and S.H.I.E.L.D. is correct.Just like Hitler always believed that his cause was just.

Paranoid people are easy to succeed.But at the same time, paranoia can also lead to turning a blind eye to many things.

For example, he still doesn't know that his role has changed.

Nick Fury felt bad because the lack of intelligence, especially the lack of intelligence against the White House, made him feel very upset.

Yes, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been spying on the White House.

In Nick Fury's S.H.I.E.L.D., the President of the White House, the most powerful position in the world, is a target that must be guarded against.If the White House does not make a decision, it will cause shocks in the world. For the sake of world peace, the president must be monitored to prevent unnecessary crises.

This makes sense, right?

After all, S.H.I.E.L.D. is the guardian of the world.Need to be responsible to the world.

In the eyes of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Nick Fury, no one in this world needs supervision, except themselves.

But soon, the president's speech in Congress dispelled some of Nick Fury's doubts.

The president is taxing!

The United States has always advocated liberalism, likes to tout the free market, and throws everything to the market.For example, in the large school shooting incident, the first reaction of the US government was not to ban robbery, nor to strengthen the security level of the campus, but to introduce a free market and let insurance companies enter the market!

If liberalism is touted, then big government will naturally become an obstacle, and the free market does not need government intervention.

Those capitalists wish the government didn't care about anything. It would be like a long time ago, when the head of government played poker in the White House every day. (The 29th President of the United States, Warren G. Harding and his famous poker cabinet, are notorious for not doing anything, only for corruption and bribery)

As for tax increases?

ha?Basically, any tax increase in the United States will receive extremely fierce opposition, except for tax increases for the rich.

Of course, this kind of thing is nothing to the rich.Because the rich in the United States will always have a way to avoid taxes, the legal one.

Many people like to talk about the charity of the rich in the United States, saying that Americans will do charity if they have money.As a result, they despise the people in their own country for being rich and unkind, even doing charity is just a show, and double standards fly.

Such people are either stupid or bad.Charity is a business in America!
Because it can avoid tax.

Many people say that the rich in the United States will not leave money to their children, but will only leave their life experience and wisdom to future generations, which is pure nonsense!If this is the case, how did those rich families come from?

The real situation is that in the United States, both inheritance and gift of property are heavily taxed!Direct inheritance means that a large sum of money needs to be paid to the government! (The generation of the famous Rockefeller family, in order to let their son inherit the property, before the property gift tax was officially collected, they 'gifted' all their properties to their sons, so that they did not pay a penny of tax. Supplement For a moment, there was already an inheritance tax at that time, and it was getting higher and higher. Nowadays, the inheritance tax is about half, half of all assets, including real estate, artwork, etc., all are appraised and half is collected)
So any family foundation or charitable foundation has become the best 'inheritance'.

Because there is no need to pay taxes. (There is no need to pay inheritance tax and property gift tax, but if the fund generates income, it must also pay tax)

So many rich second-generation parents will say, I will not leave a penny to my offspring, and all the money will be donated to the charity foundation I established, so that they can become free strugglers, blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. , but it’s hard to say what kind of occupation those rich second generations will do in the future. They must be the actual controllers of the charitable foundation.

So taxing the rich is actually very, very difficult.Because it can't be collected at all.

So why did Benjamin do this?
Raising taxes on the vast middle class?That would affect his official career!
Raising taxes on the rich will not only save a lot of money, but will be targeted by the rich, and the gains outweigh the losses.

The answer will be posted soon.

Tax conventional energy!
And increase taxes!

The petrochemical industry is subject to an additional tax rate of 20.00%!This is a simple increase!
This was unimaginable before!

After all, the energy industry is related to national security, and any tax increase will cause turmoil.

But something miraculous happened. Except for the fierce reaction of the major traditional energy companies, everyone else was emotionally stable and even applauded the president loudly.

When Nick Fury saw this, he immediately understood self-righteously. This is the president's plan to attack traditional energy interest groups.

This is no small matter.

At the same time, Nick Fury also admitted that this action seems dangerous, but it is actually not as difficult as imagined.

First of all, the president is talking about environmental protection.

This is politically correct, especially after the Atlanteans went to war against the land people because of environmental protection, it is even more politically correct.

Secondly, traditional energy is outdated. After China announced that the miniature controllable reactor has been successfully tested and intends to promote it at the fastest speed, the importance of traditional energy such as oil has further declined.The structure of the petrodollar no longer has a foundation.After all, some major countries have begun to get rid of oil dependence.

The new energy industry in the United States has made great progress after Stark Group's intervention. At this stage, more than half of the power grids in the United States have begun to connect to new energy sources, and they no longer rely on fossil energy for power generation.

After that, the Stark Group launched new energy vehicles, new energy aircraft and other projects.

Once again exacerbated the decline of traditional energy status.

Therefore, national energy security does not need to rely on fossil fuels.

Secondly, domestic political forces also support this matter.Not to mention new energy interest groups, they wish all traditional energy would die!Secondly, other interest groups, also because of the difficult times facing the country, must also pull out a fat pig to slaughter and regenerate blood. At this stage, the United States is desperately waiting for food and needs money!

It even seems to be afraid that these traditional energy groups will not die fast enough, and Congress even proposed to launch an environmental investigation... It is basically self-evident who this is aimed at.

In this way, a large amount of fines will be a large amount of money!
Benjamin didn't use this specifically to confuse S.H.I.E.L.D. Although S.H.I.E.L.D. was important, it hadn't reached this point. Taxation was the key point, and S.H.I.E.L.D. was incidental.

But it works surprisingly well.

Although Nick Fury had doubts, he was relieved a lot.As for the collapse of the White House intelligence network, even if he is unhappy, what can he do, go and argue with the president?

This can only be done slowly, and at the same time, he must be careful to prevent the White House from linking this matter to S.H.I.E.L.D.

This sucks.

Nick Fury has found that things haven't been going well lately.

So... he is even more eager to gain insight into the plan!

He needs to take concrete actions to dispel other people's doubts about S.H.I.E.L.D. After all, the performance of S.H.I.E.L.D. after several crises in a row...is really unsatisfactory.

As for the controversy arising from the Insight Plan... Nick Fury believes that as long as the Insight Plan is launched, all arguments are just arguments!

(End of this chapter)