Yes, but in SimCity you play the part of the government. So if you only collect $5000 in taxes, but provide $6000 in services, you lose. Ideally, government sho

Yes, but in SimCity you play the part of the government. So if you only collect $5000 in taxes, but provide $6000 in services, you lose. Ideally, government should be break-even, where services rendered = taxes collected, at least on the small-scale microeconomics of SimCity. Even still, the above doesn't work out because you are responsible for providing city infrastructure as well, which costs money up front. If you don't collect tax revenues, you can't afford to build new infrastructure without going into debt. You know, forget everything I said. It's a simulation game with only lose ties to real-world economics. It doesn't have to make sense.