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Get out. The characters in Simcity put up with tax rates that no human ever would. The default is like 8 percent muni. And they'll put up with them even if y

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• vidarh 14y ago
  But being able given that level of control over tax rates at the municipal level, and that level of control of funding to municipal services, is far right fantasy land in European politics - setting tax rates is largely the domain of national governments, and a lot of what is under municipal control in Sim City is budgeted centrally in pretty much every European country, in part to enforce more equal provisioning of services. Separate municipal tax rates is pretty much absent from the political discussion in much of Europe, because it largely doesn't exist - local budgets tends to be handed out as grants from central government. Decentralizing this is seen as dangerous because it would jeopardize the provisioning of services that are expected to be available equally to everyone. To the extent that municipal taxes exist, they tend to be very low and tied to specific limited services under local control. When Thatcher introduced the Poll Tax in the UK, which is what eventually morphed into the current Council Tax - the UK's version of municipal tax rates - it was a shocking development that even contributed to rioting (though to be fair, in part because the way it was created also explicitly disenfranchised the homeless). But even today, a large part of UK council budgets comes from central government.