Re: High tax rates in Vga Planets

From: weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg)

Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:13:14 +0000

In article <C18Irs.87x@news.cso.uiuc.edu> el27166@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (This Space for Rent) writes:
>I get taxed about 20% of my income, and my parents get taxed 30%.  If this
>happened on VGA Planets or Sim City, the citizens would revolt.  In addition
>to that, we have to pay certain other taxes, like sales tax 5-10%, and taxes
>on items we may purchase such as cigarettes and alcohol, not to mention
>taxes on many imported items.

Actually it's quite east to use a 100% tax rate in sim-city.  Set the rate to
100% at the beginning of the year, everyone will get very unhappy and
production, etc... will go down...but if you reset it to 0% in Nov or Dec,
then the people are 'happy' again by the time evaluations come about at the
end of the year, and you still get most of the money for the high tax rate.  I
don't know if this works in every version, but it worked the one time I played
on a Mac.

--Mike

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References

Re: High tax rates in Vga Planets
simons@plains.NoDak.edu (C. Patrick Simons)
Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:30:50 +0000
Re: High tax rates in Vga Planets
el27166@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (This Space for Rent)
Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:55:04 +0000
Re: High tax rates in Vga Planets
ptm57791@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Patrick T. Murzyn)
Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:15:29 +0000