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Institute a progressive Wealth Tax

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stoicfaux
#61 - 2013-01-03 04:16:41 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:

My reasoning being, I see people in RL totally tolerate 10K a year in property taxes, and multiple other taxes on income and services, "just to live in a nice neighborhood".

Schools are funded by property taxes. Better schools == better citizens2be == safer community.

It's when you pay high property taxes and of the kids that enter the local high school, only one in three graduates, that you have a real problem.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#62 - 2013-01-03 04:23:22 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:


On a side note, does anyone really take the "Gallente are French descendants" lore seriously? CCP might as well have said that the Gallente are descendants of Greece.



the drones are like the foreign legion... the only way for the French to hurt anyone Big smile

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Valentine Arkanian
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#63 - 2013-01-03 05:11:45 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
On a side note, does anyone really take the "Gallente are French descendants" lore seriously? CCP might as well have said that the Gallente are descendants of Greece.

I'm FRENCH?! The hell?

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DarthNefarius
Minmatar Heavy Industries
#64 - 2013-01-03 05:48:19 UTC
I'm surprised noone's mentioned a higher Death Tax for everytime you dieAttention
In EVE the estate tax is very progressive in the form of clone grades Big smile
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RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#65 - 2013-01-03 05:50:04 UTC
DarthNefarius wrote:
In EVE the estate tax is very progressive in the form of clone grades Big smile


Except that it's not progressive by income, it's progressive by age.

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Ris Dnalor
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#66 - 2013-01-03 06:35:14 UTC
Thomas Hurt wrote:
It is well known that EVE has a *Massive* wealth-inequality problem, and a GINI coefficient below that of only the U.S. and Brunei. I propose CCP remedy this by periodically levying a tax on both ISK holdings and the estimated (by average market values) worth of player asset values; these funds could then be spent on free ships for newbies and such, to level out the playing field and give people a fighting chance against the alliance that currently has a stranglehold on Fun in this game.



Eve is a sandbox.


Join one of these rich alliances, work your way to the top. Steal everything, then donate to newbs.


no need for CCP to do this, the tools to get it done are already in-game.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=118961

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Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#67 - 2013-01-03 07:14:54 UTC
Thomas Hurt wrote:
It is well known that EVE has a *Massive* wealth-inequality problem, and a GINI coefficient below that of only the U.S. and Brunei. I propose CCP remedy this by periodically levying a tax on both ISK holdings and the estimated (by average market values) worth of player asset values; these funds could then be spent on free ships for newbies and such, to level out the playing field and give people a fighting chance against the alliance that currently has a stranglehold on Fun in this game.


Tl;dr

I'm too lazy to do something about Goons & want CCP to do it for me.

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BoSau Hotim
Uitraan Diversified Holdings Incorporated
#68 - 2013-01-03 07:19:32 UTC
Thomas Hurt wrote:
It is well known that EVE has a *Massive* wealth-inequality problem, and a GINI coefficient below that of only the U.S. and Brunei. I propose CCP remedy this by periodically levying a tax on both ISK holdings and the estimated (by average market values) worth of player asset values; these funds could then be spent on free ships for newbies and such, to level out the playing field and give people a fighting chance against the alliance that currently has a stranglehold on Fun in this game.



HELL NO!

Get off my Eve and stop pissing me off!

It's bad enough to have to live with this crap in real life then you bring it into our game play.

.... everyone else... please excuse me for yelling. This guy is an idiot.

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Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#69 - 2013-01-03 07:33:10 UTC
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Thomas Hurt wrote:
It is well known that EVE has a *Massive* wealth-inequality problem, and a GINI coefficient below that of only the U.S. and Brunei. I propose CCP remedy this by periodically levying a tax on both ISK holdings and the estimated (by average market values) worth of player asset values; these funds could then be spent on free ships for newbies and such, to level out the playing field and give people a fighting chance against the alliance that currently has a stranglehold on Fun in this game.

Tl;dr

I'm too lazy to do something about Goons & want CCP to do it for me.

We already give our newbies free ships.

But I know, you want the NPCs to do it FOR YOU. Like how NPCs protect you and NPC stations, wow NPCs are amazing.

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Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#70 - 2013-01-03 09:09:41 UTC
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