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See the the Caesar franchise (Caesar IV, 2006). You have to hire tax collectors, set taxes, and yes you also have a separate income as a governor. It does all
by mrVentures2 5y ago
See the the Caesar franchise (Caesar IV, 2006). You have to hire tax collectors, set taxes, and yes you also have a separate income as a governor. It does all of this.
- larsiusprime 5y agoThat's cool! Does it say what exactly you are taxing (labor, land, capital, income, wealth)?, or is that left abstract?
- rebuilder 5y agoThere were times that the Romans auctioned off the right to tax a region. So you’d pay the state some sum and then have the right to extract whatever you can from the population. I’m sure the whole story is much more nuanced than that outline.
- bserge 5y agoAnd I thought debt collection agencies are shit. We really do live in the best times so far.
- jhbadger 5y agoEven 18th century pre-revolutionary France did this sort of thing. The great chemist Lavoisier was executed by revolutionaries, not because he was a chemist, but because he was also an administrator of the ferme générale, the privatized tax system of the time.
- depaya 5y agoThis is how parking enforcement works in some major cities (e.g. Chicago).
- mrVentures2 5y agoYou said taxes for the different markets (such as luxury goods, Granary, and imports) all of the citizen shop at, and then you set separate real estate taxes for the patricians which are the wealthiest class in the society. And you can see the little dude walk around and get the taxes. The game really holds up, it's my fav =)