Commanders downgrading tax

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#1

This is automatic. So you can always reduce tax rate with any old
commander. Note 1 is the lowest and it can bounce straight back up if you
don't have the income to support your expenditure.

Clint

#2

Middle Earth PBM Games wrote:

This is automatic. So you can always reduce tax rate with any old
commander. Note 1 is the lowest and it can bounce straight back up if you
don't have the income to support your expenditure.

Not so. I have had Commanders fail to lower taxes because 'the populace
did not support it.' Rarer than failing to raise taxes, to be sure, but
it happens.

-ED \1/

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#3

Edward A Dimmick wrote:

Not so. I have had Commanders fail to lower taxes because 'the populace
did not support it.'

They must be Swiss, the only nation I know that actually voted in a
referendum to *raise* taxes.

Gavin

#4

Oh I don't know, remember Middle Earth is a mythical world and if Elves,
Dwarves, Hobbits and Dragons can exist then why not people who like paying
taxes? Or maybe it was just the Swiss looking for new places to sell cuckoo
clocks.....

Cheers

Simon

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Edward A Dimmick wrote:

> Not so. I have had Commanders fail to lower taxes because 'the populace
> did not support it.'

They must be Swiss, the only nation I know that actually voted in a
referendum to *raise* taxes.

Gavin

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#5

Thought I would check in on the subject.. The whole thing is theoretical
anyway. The populance did not support it could mean that there was a
governmental error or he filed the papers wrong that made the order
ineffective or some other reason.

You could make the same argument for the amount of taxes. How is it
possible that every major town makes the same amount of income? Obviously
if you had a thriving city like Paris with a large population and then take
a third world city of the same size you would have a different tax base.
The game doesn't wiegh for that either.

Chris

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At 09:07 AM 1/4/02 -0000, you wrote:

Oh I don't know, remember Middle Earth is a mythical world and if Elves,
Dwarves, Hobbits and Dragons can exist then why not people who like paying
taxes? Or maybe it was just the Swiss looking for new places to sell cuckoo
clocks.....

Cheers

Simon

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Edward A Dimmick wrote:

> Not so. I have had Commanders fail to lower taxes because 'the populace
> did not support it.'

They must be Swiss, the only nation I know that actually voted in a
referendum to *raise* taxes.

Gavin

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#6

--- In mepbmlist@y..., Gavinwj <gavinwj@c...> wrote:

Edward A Dimmick wrote:

> Not so. I have had Commanders fail to lower taxes because 'the

populace

> did not support it.'

They must be Swiss, the only nation I know that actually voted in a
referendum to *raise* taxes.

Gavin

This happens locally all of the time in the USA.
Schools are funded mostly from local taxes, and school
levies (property tax increases for operating the public schools
and/or building new schools) are on the ballot frequently.

At least where we are, they regularly pass as well.
There is some logic to this quite apart from altruism -
good local schools result in good property values.

cheers,

Marc

#7

*Shrug*

Well, it really depends on what part of the country you live in and
the demographics of the voting population. Where I went to high
school, our local school district tried to get operating and/or
improvement levies passed numerous times which would have resulted in
higher property taxes. There was a large elderly population in the
school district where I went to school, and everytime they came out
and voted in large numbers to kill the levy. Needless to say no levy
ever passed during the four years I was in high school.

The logic is that old people don't have children, therefore they
don't care about the conditions of the schools and won't approve any
tax increases.

There's plenty of fault with public education in America,
unfortunately much of it is tied to money.

- Ben

I was a bit off topic, but hey, I felt it needed to be said.

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This happens locally all of the time in the USA.
Schools are funded mostly from local taxes, and school
levies (property tax increases for operating the public schools
and/or building new schools) are on the ballot frequently.

At least where we are, they regularly pass as well.
There is some logic to this quite apart from altruism -
good local schools result in good property values.

cheers,

Marc