U.I.F Federal Government v. Emeralde County

U.I.F Federal Government v. Emeralde County was a court case in the Applause County Federal Courthouse (where the previous regional capitol was before the annexation of the City of Aelholt in Valhaven County) in which the United Island Federation Federal government sued the local municipality of Emeralde County due to misuse of federal funds.

Background

When the U.I.F was building new roads and connecting the island from east to west, the federal government made a contract that in order to connect and fund all multi-county and important single county routes, the counties would need to provide a local tax that would fund the entire system. For example, under the proposed system, taxes collected in Orion County would fund both Orion County and the entire road system, with preference given to Orion County roads first.

Case

Emeralde County breached this contract when they demanded that their tax dividends may only be used for Emeralde County roads period, and did not file their taxes with accordance to federal law (they only paid local dividends instead of local and federal). Because of this tax violation, the county was sued by the federal government and required to pay dividends that they missed.

Emeralde County eventually complied and paid court fees and the necessary dividends that were left unpaid. The previous county commissioner (Conserv.-Romaine City) had however made controversy during his speech regarding the matter:

"It's such a stupid thing when big government forces us to hand over our hard earned money! Emeralde County Dollars Deserve To Fund Emeralde County Roads! Even though it connects to the other jurisdictions, we shouldn't care! And so what if we get first preference in the funding! And so what if our routes are also insured by the government? And so what if having such policy helps our nation more? Wait, uh..."