Should Traders in RP, use Jump Holes?

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"LPI" and "Trader" in the same name is a bit OORP if you ask me. LPI = Liberty Police, Inc. LPI are cops ... NOT traders. Traders are NOT cops. Cops may buy products manufactured by corporations and delivered by traders ... but cops do NOT actually manufacture nor do they trade in goods. Cops get their money from taxes levied by the house governments ... not by making money like a corporation. You're mixing ID's and IFF's that should not be mixed. Its like having a Civilian ID with a Navy IFF ... what? You can't be both military and civilian at the same time. The military fights wars to protect the civilian ... not the other way around.

Actually, There are systems that traders need to use to get to systems they are allowed to use. For Example, Minnesota and the KOF.

I would think that there would be SOME jump holes that corporations would OK for use, but a blanket OK on all of them seems a little far fetched.

Now I am going to respectfully disagree with the statement about the LPI traders. Lets look at the last word in LPI, Incorporated. A corporation. A corporation that also has manufacturing wing that the inhabitants of Huntsville and the Sugarland provide as labor. So why can't the LPI have its own trading wing? Supplies need to be taken from base to base, equipment shuffled around. It's not so far fetched.

As for the cops in liberty being supported by taxes, we aren't. The LPI is a corporation paid by the Liberty government to provide a police force.

In reality, the LPI has no set funding mechanism. I wished the LPI had a set amount of credits given to it every month to sustain it, but is doesn't. The credits needed to run the LPI come from it's members, and any
fines that are collected go to the LPI. I personally have donated in excess of 400 million and added a few ships out of my own pocket. Others have done the same.

Edit: From the LPI ID itself:

* Can trade and escort traders

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Formerly known as LPI Police Chief Hull O'Brien.
Creator of Sgt. V. Price, 207th Precinct out of Chula Vista Station