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Chromis Pasqflower
Planet Express Transport
#1 - 2014-06-18 18:45:08 UTC
.... High taxes as much as they love David Hasselhoff. Just curious, but is there a specific reason for this? Of course I'm talking about in EVE. Every time I check out the info of a German corp, they have a super high tax rate - by that we're talking in the 15% or greater. Their POCOs always have even higher rates, even I've seen some in the 30% bracket.

The POCOs I really don't understand, since every one that I was operating out of that were took over by Germans I've packed up shop and left, one would think it would be more beneficial to have a lower rate to attract more PI people to a system rather than a high one to drive them off - unless one is going for some sort of area domination here, but I don't see much of a push for that.

The corps too, seem really onerus on individual players. Do German corps have a lot of publicly funded benefits? Are they way more socialist (and that's not necessarily a bad thing) in their operation? Do German players cooperate more than your average EVE corps? Inquiring minds must know!
Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-06-18 18:46:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Sibyyl
That is the longest word substitute for "bier" I've ever seen. Shocked

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Jim Era
#3 - 2014-06-18 20:06:48 UTC
Whooo, David Hasselhoff!

Wat™
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#4 - 2014-06-18 20:24:06 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#5 - 2014-06-18 20:28:07 UTC
Saw the topic and my mind went straight in the gutter.




Its probably for the best that this thread didn't turn out the way I expected, as something like that would be edited and locked by the ISDs pretty quick.

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Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2014-06-18 21:04:38 UTC
Your OP somehow suggest that the taxes are used to support David Hasselhoff?

I guess you're on to something...

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Antihrist Pripravnik
Cultural Enrichment and Synergy of Diversity
Stain Neurodiverse Democracy
#7 - 2014-06-18 21:32:22 UTC
Sibyyl wrote:
That is the longest word substitute for "bier" I've ever seen. Shocked


Bier? That's a bit... disturbing Straight
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2014-06-18 21:52:13 UTC
Antihrist Pripravnik wrote:
Sibyyl wrote:
That is the longest word substitute for "bier" I've ever seen. Shocked


Bier? That's a bit... disturbing Straight

Oh, I think he meant what you Americans loosely call "beer" (Ze Germans call it "Pisswasser")

Dodixie > Hek
Kaahles
Jion Keanturi
#9 - 2014-06-18 21:57:11 UTC
ElQuirko wrote:
Antihrist Pripravnik wrote:
Sibyyl wrote:
That is the longest word substitute for "bier" I've ever seen. Shocked


Bier? That's a bit... disturbing Straight

Oh, I think he meant what you Americans loosely call "beer" (Ze Germans call it "Pisswasser")

I see this thread going places...
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2014-06-18 22:04:15 UTC
Kaahles wrote:
ElQuirko wrote:
Antihrist Pripravnik wrote:
Sibyyl wrote:
That is the longest word substitute for "bier" I've ever seen. Shocked


Bier? That's a bit... disturbing Straight

Oh, I think he meant what you Americans loosely call "beer" (Ze Germans call it "Pisswasser")

I see this thread going places...

Stalag Luft III or Gitmo?

Dodixie > Hek
BLACK-STAR
#11 - 2014-06-18 23:16:31 UTC  |  Edited by: BLACK-STAR
Go join a hippy american corp if you have a problem.

btw it's Bier not pisswater. GTA educates small minds well. Roll
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#12 - 2014-06-19 00:05:05 UTC
Confirming that EVE Online needed another David Hasslehoff thread... and that socialists love taxes, in those immortal words from a Rolling Stone magazine article that once reported on the Swedish social system: " ... from erection to ressurrection."





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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#13 - 2014-06-19 05:51:09 UTC
ElQuirko wrote:
Kaahles wrote:
ElQuirko wrote:
Antihrist Pripravnik wrote:
Sibyyl wrote:
That is the longest word substitute for "bier" I've ever seen. Shocked


Bier? That's a bit... disturbing Straight

Oh, I think he meant what you Americans loosely call "beer" (Ze Germans call it "Pisswasser")

I see this thread going places...

Stalag Luft III or Gitmo?


I dont like beer but I do like Stiegl. (Austria bier bestest)
Arean Proktor
Chilli Joe
#14 - 2014-06-19 07:24:38 UTC
Germans like taxes coz it will give Money to the corp... So corp can buy stuff.


Stop talking, buy moar stuff!
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#15 - 2014-06-19 07:26:33 UTC
Let's make fun of Germans! Wheeeeeeeeee Big smile

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Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#16 - 2014-06-19 08:08:05 UTC
Anchluss?

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l0rd carlos
the king asked me to guard the mountain
#17 - 2014-06-19 08:26:53 UTC
As a German, I can't explain why it is this way, but it does not surprise me.

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Marcus Gord
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#18 - 2014-06-19 08:28:51 UTC
just don't mention the war.

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Morihei Akachi
Doomheim
#19 - 2014-06-19 08:47:14 UTC
Germans love functional infrastructure. A corp that is too poor to fund ops and replace ships is … inefficient. Nothing annoys more than inefficiency.

Having said that: RL German tax rates are higher than those in some English-speaking countries. This presumably influences the perception of what a reasonable tax rate is in general.

"Enduring", "restrained" and "ample" as designations for starship components are foreign to the genre of high-tech science fiction and don’t belong in Eve Online. (And as for “scoped” …)
Mizhir
Devara Biotech
#20 - 2014-06-19 09:23:04 UTC
The German tax rates are pretty low compared to where I live.

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