Re: Region control

Carl Edman (cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu)
Mon, 27 Jul 92 21:08:20 PDT

The late great Dark Prophet writes:
> I know that taxing economic transactions in a region is
> difficult to implement, but it's a popular idea. I think
> it's more interesting than the head tax on the peasants.

Maybe, but I don't think it is worth the trouble. I'm certain that
there aren't more than two or three markets which consistently have a
monthly trade volume in excess of 1000 gold. Even at the high end of
reasonable tax rates like 10%, that is 100 gold/month, or about as
much as three people working earn in that same time. It just doesn't
pay.

Carl Edman

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