"The desire to emigrate is so strong that people simply phase through walls, reinforcing the theory that even lower on Maslow's hierachy of needs, is the physiological requirement for a human being to evade taxation."
> high taxes > high employment > zero local residents > everyone either commutes from outside the sector via public transport or works remotely > zero advanced municipal services > surprisingly happy business advisors Congratulations, you just created a Dutch business park.
I love like, when there are literally zero houses, ALL people working in the public stuff, including your advisors, are either commuting from somewhere else or smart-working.
This is part of the plot of True Detective Season 2. Some town in California lowers it's industrial regulations so low that a bunch of factories move in, like 2/3s of their workers have to be bussed in cuz nobody wants to live in that polluted shithole.
I remember playing this game as a kid, asking my parents whats a normal tax rate, and then not understanding why I can't put it at 30% and just set it to 20%. Scandinavia lol
Strangely enough, cities skylines, which is produced by he Swedish dev paradox, still has this problem with 13% tax basically being the limit people will accept long term.
@@pyrothelostone Again, cities and state taxes are different. What is the tax you pay *to your local municipality* in Sweden? I'm guessing it is not as high as the tax you pay to the Swedish state itself.
@@connor3284 most countries don't require you to pay taxes to your municipality or do it very differently. In the UK, you either pay it to your city or county council, but that's a fixed amount based on how your property would've been valued in 1992. And even then, you get a discount if you only have one adult in your household. Even then, it doesn't pay for education or healthcare, it's for the local roads, rubbish collection, and public transport.
Considering this same guy did 0% taxes on another game over and over and called each save file failed libertarianism. Yeah I wonder how much stock he puts into thinking these games are accurate. Good meme though.
One of SsethTzeentach's videos say that the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is the innate need to evade taxation. So it wouldn't work based on this joke.
@@RooseveltGuilherme What is an anthill to a man, but a bump in the dirt? What is a man to a world leader, but a number on a sheet? To answer your question, you must ask yourself; What is a Curtain of Iron to something capable of phasing through reality itself?
Especially since these taxes pay for all the government programs such as power, water, education, healthcare, etc. Many of which municipal or property taxes do not pay for irl.
Wow, it's almost like taxation is theft and the reason governments make them so high is because of poor financial management and embezzling *cough* -i mean, yeah man that's crazy
@@eliaspanayi3465 Don't project the failings of your own third world country onto our successful developed country. Taxes here in the Nordics are low (I pay about 29%) and the government uses it to serve the people. Taxation is not a necessary evil, it is a necessary good, that helps fund our wonderful welfare state and the services and protection that it provides.
A bug exists where if you have a roundabout between 4 cities at the corners (ie A-B then B -C, C -D and then D returns to A) A sim who lives in town A will commute to work, Through B, C, D, A, B, C, D... 1 car becomes '2' cars becomes '4' cars becomes '16' cars ... every time you load city A till the road is overwhelmed. The Sim drives forever being both the only traffic and infinite traffic.
"If you build just a giant sweatshop and fill the whole land with factories... that's fine." Congratulations! You got the factory worlds from Warhammer 40K!
Keyword city. You're still paying federal and state/provincial taxes on top of that. A city with a 20% property/municipal tax would be insanity. Average property tax rates are around 1% for North America. Highest is around 2% in Illinois, NJ and Texas. And the lowest is oddly enough Vancouver at 0.2%.
i mean the debt ceiling isnt actually debt in the way that you or i interact with a concept. at the scale of nations the idea of borrowing and debt and stuff is so out there and abstracted that moat of the "debt" the us has is debt it owes to itself. thats right. the us government is in debt to ITSELF by using economic theories you could not fathom
This is good, max taxes in-game are 20%, and the game decides that it is not worth living there xD And here in Croatia, taxes are 25%. My brain has a hard time processing this information
"... reinforcing the theory that even lower on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is the physiological requirement for a human being... to evade taxation." -Ssethtzeentach, "Pharaoh review"
I wonder what would happen if you start with max tax in an empty region. Because the cities do interact so if they can move to a city with with lower taxes.
Well, then we'd have to ask what the point of currency is. It's to easier facilitate trade, so, as long as you have natural resources to exploit, you can tax as much you want, provided your slaves are not dead and can work the next day. Therefore, if there are 10 apples, and you can print currency, you can call it 20%, or 200,000%, it'll still be the same amount of apples at the end of the day.
You give the simulation too much credit, citizens don't move anywhere in SC4, it's more like they spawn or despawn depending on how high desirability is.
@@PlayerSlotAvailable they also don't really fund schools any more since the Tories have incentivised a lot of schools to go from Local Educational Authority schools to academies. So it really is ridiculously low.
@@zolda7179 I'm not saying taxes don't pay for all four of those things, but your point is clearly hyperbolic on its face. Maybe not the majority, but the private sector has examples of funding those four examples you gave.
This man makes short narrated films and I find this niche of his so beautiful, so serene that I can’t stop myself from clicking on his videos. The combination of his majestic and slightly erotic voice make for an epic combination as sim city 4 gameplay runs in the background. Every video feels like a storyteller telling you tales of old as you sit in his lap. Just magnificent.
I remember playing SimCity on my Nintendo DS as a kid many years ago. From what I remember, taxes were collected at the end of every year. So on the last day of every year right before everyone paid their taxes, I would maximize the tax. Then on the first day of the year after everyone paid maximum tax, I would decrease it again. There’s a chance I am remembering it wrong, but I know I did something like that, it’s just been so long since.
The high-tax, no-residents dirty industry city reminds me of Vernon, California, a city outside LA that has a population of 222 and is basically only oil refineries
@@iceblaster1252 and even capitalism also says if taxes are too high the lower and middle class people wontn pay them making them into criminals whos punishment drains yet more money.
There are real life nations with upper bracket rates double the max limit in sim city 4 with rich people living in them. 20% is actually insanely low compared to some of the real developed world.
@@thezapper130 What most people don't realize is that 20 or 40% is just the minimum tax you pay. If you added up all the small tidbits like sales tax, property tax, etc., you'll be paying somewhere around the range of 60-90%.
@@housewilma4904no in capitalism they make the poor work in prisons to make it cash postivie. Prisons for profit. Good old modern day slavery 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Loved this game when I was in college, too bad Sim City 5 wasn't as good. Also, buildings like the stock exchange, expo center, Tv station, and other "gift" buildings you get at certain population/job thresholds will artificially raise demand. Try unlocking those first, then restarting the city with them. You won't be able to go all the way to 20% tax, but you can go a lot higher than 9% once they are in your city (and functioning).
Ah yes, the rich would rather leave their families, their history, their very childhoods, just to not have to pay their fair share. Sounds about right.
The smallest city possible being a piece of unconnected road which is right on the border of another area, whose sole purpose is seemingly letting out of towners gamble, is beautiful.
Tbf that's the bright future for automation that's pretty communist. No-one works, but the government owns the businesses so can spend the profits on the people
I'm really hopeful that there's a VOD longform version of this video, cause I bet it's a fun ride. I love your shortform humor, but the minute by minute is a real trip.
"Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match." - Murray Rothbard
"Hey, I've been looking for a really good job lately but I don't have a College education. Where should I go?" "Just go to Max Tax City. I heard they don't even require you to be able to read in order to do their jobs. It's said that they even give you free hazmat suits, what with the acidic rain and the nonexistent ozone layer above it." "Nah, that's just a rumor. They don't even have breathable air for free, you think they'd give you a whole hazmat suit?"
When I was a kid, every time I raise tax in any Sim City game by a *little* bit, the ingame advisors/news ticker says people disliked/hated/raged about it and my anxiety puts the taxes back to the minimum.
"they'd rather live in a nuclear fallout zone or a DMZ if it meant they didn't have to pay taxes" I mean... the game is set in the USA. what did you expect.
A study was actually done asking people how much they'd be willing to give. They found that 17%, roughly, was the max that they could push, before folks started getting mad
as someone said below its the CITY TAX which means all the national taxes go ONTOP of that so it would mean like half your paycheck is taxes before any expenses. effectivly no one wanted to live in the city because it would immiedatly make them into debt slv unable to leave. which is sadl true in alot of big cities with horrendus tax rates like new york chicago and san fran. it makes it impossible for lower classes to leave and incrediply painfull for middle class to leave.
@@skoovee I think it's pretty decent place, we have high taxes but a lot of Social care, free healthcare and an ok public transportation. The crime rate is pretty low. The only thing that sucks is the bureaucracy. But I'm also curious, how is it in Australia? I've heard a lot of crazy stuff lately.
@@Sabo-Tabby_Kitten its ok, gets hot the crime rate is ok but a lot of the attitudes towards LGBT people are getting worse and there are not all that many career opportunity's for what i want to go into. how did you know i am in australia?
@@skoovee You can see the country under the "channel info" tab. The attitude toward LGBT people here is getting worse too (especially trans people) but it's still way better than in countries like the USA. Which is more troubling at the moment are the estimated survey values of the AFD (A fascist party) 18%
@@Sabo-Tabby_Kitten The AfD is not a fascist party. They are the only party that truly cares about Germany and wants to save it from the stealing and corrupt immigrants who are bringing in crime and poverty. The German healthcare system is also complete shit because it is free.
The fire guy was passively-aggressively dabbing at you again, but you didn't ref the old video. AA, I reckon you could have maxed out a bit harder on the Jokes in this episode. The ending was great though.
only 40? in my country its over 50 of my salary gone from the start, then base tax over 24% for everything + all the hidden taxes, and fuel two times more expensive because of tax, and all other form of energy 3-5 times more expensive because of tax, all thanks to the gov monopoly, if i didnt pay any taxes i would have like 10 million euros in my bank, but instead i have 12....euro
I think that's about where American taxes are at when you combine State and Federal. Makes sense that no one would want to live in a city that taxes them 20% on top of all that. /Edit: Nevermind, looks like the average actual tax rate is a touch under 30%, counting both federal and local taxes. My point still stands about folks not wanting half their wages to functionally go up in smoke, though, even if you assume some overlap between the actual tax rate and the 20% in Max Tax City.
"The desire to emigrate is so strong that people simply phase through walls, reinforcing the theory that even lower on Maslow's hierachy of needs, is the physiological requirement for a human being to evade taxation."
Simply incredible
Hey hey people
Ancient Eqyptian was right
Only thing left were hacking wild animals
@@traineebotilluminaty save them😂😂
> high taxes
> high employment
> zero local residents
> everyone either commutes from outside the sector via public transport or works remotely
> zero advanced municipal services
> surprisingly happy business advisors
Congratulations, you just created a Dutch business park.
Or the Reedy Creek Improvement District (the area Disney World occupies).
Sounds more like Amsterdam to me
You mean Amsterdam?
I love like, when there are literally zero houses, ALL people working in the public stuff, including your advisors, are either commuting from somewhere else or smart-working.
Also including him. The population is 0, even the mayor refuses to live there.
Government officials are property, not people
Well yeah. Sims would drive out of town to work, it's pretty neat
Not even _they_ want to pay taxes
This is part of the plot of True Detective Season 2. Some town in California lowers it's industrial regulations so low that a bunch of factories move in, like 2/3s of their workers have to be bussed in cuz nobody wants to live in that polluted shithole.
*Run for Senator* is an incredible end to a bankrupt city, I can't believe I never noticed they or completely forgot about it
Wouldn't surprise me if this was a running gag in the series based on an actual story. Similar to the Dan Quayle gag in each Civ game.
The John Fetterman method
Your advisors were happy because with no town they were getting paid to do nothing all day. The dream position of any government employee.
i think that's already their job description
I feel like this is what the politicians in California are trying to accomplish lol
@@johng3029 Luring in the people with high paying jobs (tech) and then doubling taxes. This is definitely California
@rando5673 yeah I had that thought throughout the entire video haha
the average position, really
That ending was probably one of the most realistic endings from your videos yet.
I remember playing this game as a kid, asking my parents whats a normal tax rate, and then not understanding why I can't put it at 30% and just set it to 20%. Scandinavia lol
Strangely enough, cities skylines, which is produced by he Swedish dev paradox, still has this problem with 13% tax basically being the limit people will accept long term.
@@pyrothelostone Again, cities and state taxes are different. What is the tax you pay *to your local municipality* in Sweden? I'm guessing it is not as high as the tax you pay to the Swedish state itself.
@@connor3284The municipality in Nordic countries do not pay for higher education or healthcare. If they did, municipal taxes would be higher.
@@connor3284 most countries don't require you to pay taxes to your municipality or do it very differently. In the UK, you either pay it to your city or county council, but that's a fixed amount based on how your property would've been valued in 1992. And even then, you get a discount if you only have one adult in your household.
Even then, it doesn't pay for education or healthcare, it's for the local roads, rubbish collection, and public transport.
@@connor3284 The municipality tax for where I live in Sweden is currently a little bit over 21%.
Not calling it 'Taximum City' was a missed opportunity
'Slow Clap'
Makes it sound closer to Minimum then Maximum.
Taximum Overdrive!
Maximus Taximus
@@Cryten0 No, it doesn't.
Ah yes Sim City 4, the greatest of all economic simulators.
Insanely realistic.
Meanwhile France: 60% tax and infinite demand
Considering this same guy did 0% taxes on another game over and over and called each save file failed libertarianism. Yeah I wonder how much stock he puts into thinking these games are accurate.
Good meme though.
isnt this basically china tho
@@Virulent-wolfbutthurt libertarian spotted
Moral of the story.
When the city turns shitty, the rich people move away, and the poor people live with it till they die early.
If ambiguous was a book, it would be A Modest Proposal.
That's a great essay haha
@@ambiguousamphibiangimme a kiss 💋
You are what you eat.
You should have removed outside connections, so that rich wouldn't be able to leave.
One of SsethTzeentach's videos say that the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is the innate need to evade taxation. So it wouldn't work based on this joke.
An Iron Curtain of sorts, then? lol
@@RooseveltGuilherme What is an anthill to a man, but a bump in the dirt? What is a man to a world leader, but a number on a sheet? To answer your question, you must ask yourself; What is a Curtain of Iron to something capable of phasing through reality itself?
@@Skyte100 .phasing through walls to evade taxes
Or space instead of walls.
Living in Nordics I always found it so strange that the max tax was 20% in SimCity. I don't think I've ever had that low taxes lol
Especially since these taxes pay for all the government programs such as power, water, education, healthcare, etc. Many of which municipal or property taxes do not pay for irl.
Wow, it's almost like taxation is theft and the reason governments make them so high is because of poor financial management and embezzling *cough* -i mean, yeah man that's crazy
@@eliaspanayi3465 nah, taxes are great.
@@gawwad4073 ok fed
@@eliaspanayi3465 Don't project the failings of your own third world country onto our successful developed country.
Taxes here in the Nordics are low (I pay about 29%) and the government uses it to serve the people.
Taxation is not a necessary evil, it is a necessary good, that helps fund our wonderful welfare state and the services and protection that it provides.
A bug exists where if you have a roundabout between 4 cities at the corners (ie A-B then B -C, C -D and then D returns to A)
A sim who lives in town A will commute to work, Through B, C, D, A, B, C, D...
1 car becomes '2' cars becomes '4' cars becomes '16' cars ... every time you load city A
till the road is overwhelmed.
The Sim drives forever being both the only traffic and infinite traffic.
@elfrjz I'm pretty sure that's called an economic bubble
I didn't even know these metrics existed in SimCity. I got this game in a cereal box as a child. I never once ran a successful city
"If you build just a giant sweatshop and fill the whole land with factories... that's fine."
Congratulations! You got the factory worlds from Warhammer 40K!
Imagine living in a city where 20% tax rate is considered far too high
Keyword city. You're still paying federal and state/provincial taxes on top of that. A city with a 20% property/municipal tax would be insanity. Average property tax rates are around 1% for North America. Highest is around 2% in Illinois, NJ and Texas. And the lowest is oddly enough Vancouver at 0.2%.
@@Arkiasis
You can thank the Chinese for Vancouver.
@@Arkiasis Probably because it's 0.2% of a $3,000,000 valuation for a shit shack
@@ArkiasisDo property taxes pay for universities?
@@ArkiasisWhere I live in Sweden, the city tax is about 33%…
You can tell how unrealistic this game is when it doesn’t let you keep borrowing just by raising the debt ceiling and ignoring the consequences.
it's a city builder, not a country builder. countries can make their own money literally from nothing.
Cities cannot print money, only the federal government can.
Ah yes, Chicago Simulator.
i mean the debt ceiling isnt actually debt in the way that you or i interact with a concept. at the scale of nations the idea of borrowing and debt and stuff is so out there and abstracted that moat of the "debt" the us has is debt it owes to itself.
thats right. the us government is in debt to ITSELF by using economic theories you could not fathom
"economic" ""policy"" goes """BRRRRRRRRR"""
This is good, max taxes in-game are 20%, and the game decides that it is not worth living there xD And here in Croatia, taxes are 25%. My brain has a hard time processing this information
You would have to keep in mind this would also be a city tax, so a citizen would likely have to pay a state/province tax and a national tax.
That's just money going to the goverment. If this city was in Croatia you eould be taxed 45%. Or close to Finland tax
Simple answer: Croatia isn’t real. Don’t worry, you’ll come to your senses eventually Mx. “Croatian”
/j
@@TheSpoonyCroyThats maybe how taxes work in the US but the large majority of my just under 30% taxes go to my city/commune/region.
/Swede
Well the rich would just use loopholes. If Elon musk was forced to pay 20% he would leave the world if he had to
"... reinforcing the theory that even lower on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is the physiological requirement for a human being... to evade taxation."
-Ssethtzeentach, "Pharaoh review"
I wonder what would happen if you start with max tax in an empty region. Because the cities do interact so if they can move to a city with with lower taxes.
Well, then we'd have to ask what the point of currency is. It's to easier facilitate trade, so, as long as you have natural resources to exploit, you can tax as much you want, provided your slaves are not dead and can work the next day. Therefore, if there are 10 apples, and you can print currency, you can call it 20%, or 200,000%, it'll still be the same amount of apples at the end of the day.
You give the simulation too much credit, citizens don't move anywhere in SC4, it's more like they spawn or despawn depending on how high desirability is.
So you essentially found an exploit for massive amounts of seed money?
Genius!
The frog sounds were a great touch to illustrate your internal thought process. 10/10
Frog hive mind
My Max Tax City failed because Max never moved to my city and I ran out of money.
My bad, homie.
"This just in, local frog recreates L.A."
People in simcity: "omfg 20% taxes, fucking outrageous"
People irl: "omfg 50% taxes, we're so blessed"
me, from england, seeing you start at 20% tax - "but that's...... the normal amount of tax"
That is the city tax
That does not factor in other taxes
This is just the city tax, so a more accurate comparison would be to your council tax.
@@connor3284The council does not build hospitals like you do in this game
@@PlayerSlotAvailable they also don't really fund schools any more since the Tories have incentivised a lot of schools to go from Local Educational Authority schools to academies. So it really is ridiculously low.
AA unlocked the achievement: "Discovered capital flight"
You need to have a single road to legalize gambling for them to roll dice on.
I love how this went from Pasadena to Dubai to San Francisco to LA 50 years in the future
3:12 going for the California strategy I see
"No taxation without representation" says a taxion "what do you want me to im a fucking turtle" says ambiguousamfebian
It’s funny because 20% tax was considered ridiculously high back then. Now we’re paying 21% as the normal
Man, those lucky sims....I wish we only paid 20%.
It's only a property tax (maybe), there may be other taxes that Sims pay too :)
i also wish there were no schools, hospitals, railroads or roads
Croatia 25% tax... + 25 to 40 fees.... welcome to hell
20% municipal tax, with state and federal taxes on top of that is definitly not lucky
@@zolda7179 I'm not saying taxes don't pay for all four of those things, but your point is clearly hyperbolic on its face. Maybe not the majority, but the private sector has examples of funding those four examples you gave.
1:38 I saw “New Mayo” and thought it was me, but, I guess not.
This man makes short narrated films and I find this niche of his so beautiful, so serene that I can’t stop myself from clicking on his videos. The combination of his majestic and slightly erotic voice make for an epic combination as sim city 4 gameplay runs in the background. Every video feels like a storyteller telling you tales of old as you sit in his lap. Just magnificent.
Fun fact if you build a normal city & slowly raise taxes over time you can get to some pretty high numbers
In this episode, AA accidentally re-creates San Francisco
I remember playing SimCity on my Nintendo DS as a kid many years ago. From what I remember, taxes were collected at the end of every year. So on the last day of every year right before everyone paid their taxes, I would maximize the tax. Then on the first day of the year after everyone paid maximum tax, I would decrease it again. There’s a chance I am remembering it wrong, but I know I did something like that, it’s just been so long since.
The high-tax, no-residents dirty industry city reminds me of Vernon, California, a city outside LA that has a population of 222 and is basically only oil refineries
It's amazing how the Sims reflect reality on what happens if you put a very high tax on rich incomes.
Tfw even capitalism says the rich would rather evade taxes than pay into the society they benefit from
@@iceblaster1252 and even capitalism also says if taxes are too high the lower and middle class people wontn pay them making them into criminals whos punishment drains yet more money.
There are real life nations with upper bracket rates double the max limit in sim city 4 with rich people living in them. 20% is actually insanely low compared to some of the real developed world.
@@thezapper130 What most people don't realize is that 20 or 40% is just the minimum tax you pay. If you added up all the small tidbits like sales tax, property tax, etc., you'll be paying somewhere around the range of 60-90%.
@@housewilma4904no in capitalism they make the poor work in prisons to make it cash postivie. Prisons for profit. Good old modern day slavery 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
🎶 WE BUILT THIS CITY ON TAX & TOLLS 🎶
Oh boy oh boy, you made my day 😂
11:29 "Moral of the story is that rich people don't pay taxes."
TRUE lol
Oh good, a new video. I’ll be able to fall asleep quickly tonight, the cadence of his voice is so soothing
It's strange how every video he does like this actually has a real life parallel lol.
I love your devotion to SimCity 4. It's a fantastic game for engineers, urban planning, economists.
And deranged supervillans lol
Never been this excited for tax season before.
Loved this game when I was in college, too bad Sim City 5 wasn't as good.
Also, buildings like the stock exchange, expo center, Tv station, and other "gift" buildings you get at certain population/job thresholds will artificially raise demand.
Try unlocking those first, then restarting the city with them. You won't be able to go all the way to 20% tax, but you can go a lot higher than 9% once they are in your city (and functioning).
Love your ambiguously phantasmal views on intercity commerce and taxation my brudduh. Thanks for leading the way on imminetizing the eschaton.
I did that once: you cant max taxes instantly, but every year you increase 0,1% in everything.
But for that yes, a rich population is required.
What is funny is that you are describing exactly industrial revolution era during your game play.
dude became the 40k emperor and built the first hive city
Damn AA put a epilepsy warning for that ufo scene or take it out. Caught me off guard and couldn't look away fast enough.. thanks for that
This is no Tax Haven, this is a tax prison
Ah yes, the rich would rather leave their families, their history, their very childhoods, just to not have to pay their fair share. Sounds about right.
The smallest city possible being a piece of unconnected road which is right on the border of another area, whose sole purpose is seemingly letting out of towners gamble, is beautiful.
The entire town needs to be fire stations to please the fire advisor
Someone already did this. It's called "any city in california"
I haven’t played or heard of just about every game you play on your channel. I absolutely love your content. Thanks man
"Sniff sniff. Do you smell that Maximillian? Someone just raised the taxes by .1%"
He took “tax the rich” to another level 😭😭
Ah, the San Francisco experience.
“I love tax.”
-AA, 2023
0:14 rip any epileptic person
that bit where you made a utopia where no one worked using the proceeds from the factories was classic marxism, great stuff.
That was truly some from each according to his ability to each according to his need shit. Beautiful to see
Tbf that's the bright future for automation that's pretty communist. No-one works, but the government owns the businesses so can spend the profits on the people
I'm really hopeful that there's a VOD longform version of this video, cause I bet it's a fun ride. I love your shortform humor, but the minute by minute is a real trip.
Feels like putting a frog into water and gradually increasing the temperature.
The way you popped into the video at the start is absolutely glorious.
I had flashbacks to cyberpunk edgerunners when I read the words "max tax"
Wow, you pretty much recreated San Francisco, minus the "everyone getting smarter and smarter" bit.
“Rich people don’t pay taxes” man this game is so realistic 😂
"Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match." - Murray Rothbard
"Hey, I've been looking for a really good job lately but I don't have a College education. Where should I go?"
"Just go to Max Tax City. I heard they don't even require you to be able to read in order to do their jobs. It's said that they even give you free hazmat suits, what with the acidic rain and the nonexistent ozone layer above it."
"Nah, that's just a rumor. They don't even have breathable air for free, you think they'd give you a whole hazmat suit?"
this video was released the second i pulled into a walmart parking lot and got ticketed for parking on striped paint.
ACAB 💕
Taxes + child support got me feeling like the government took notes from your videos
This has to be the most realistic city he's ever made
When I was a kid, every time I raise tax in any Sim City game by a *little* bit, the ingame advisors/news ticker says people disliked/hated/raged about it and my anxiety puts the taxes back to the minimum.
I'm disappointed that you did not name the city Maximus Taximus
The city began as the plot of land where hobos were playing cards
That is literally New Albion
"they'd rather live in a nuclear fallout zone or a DMZ if it meant they didn't have to pay taxes"
I mean... the game is set in the USA. what did you expect.
There’s two things we love: keeping our money and giving the finger to the government
A study was actually done asking people how much they'd be willing to give.
They found that 17%, roughly, was the max that they could push, before folks started getting mad
as someone said below its the CITY TAX which means all the national taxes go ONTOP of that so it would mean like half your paycheck is taxes before any expenses.
effectivly no one wanted to live in the city because it would immiedatly make them into debt slv unable to leave.
which is sadl true in alot of big cities with horrendus tax rates like new york chicago and san fran.
it makes it impossible for lower classes to leave and incrediply painfull for middle class to leave.
No one lived there... oh they lived there alright. No houses, just factory dorms.
Watching this while living in Germany with an average income tax from 19%.
This is fine.
im curious, do you think germany is a good place to live, i want to move there one day
@@skoovee I think it's pretty decent place, we have high taxes but a lot of Social care, free healthcare and an ok public transportation. The crime rate is pretty low. The only thing that sucks is the bureaucracy.
But I'm also curious, how is it in Australia?
I've heard a lot of crazy stuff lately.
@@Sabo-Tabby_Kitten its ok, gets hot the crime rate is ok but a lot of the attitudes towards LGBT people are getting worse and there are not all that many career opportunity's for what i want to go into. how did you know i am in australia?
@@skoovee You can see the country under the "channel info" tab.
The attitude toward LGBT people here is getting worse too (especially trans people) but it's still way better than in countries like the USA. Which is more troubling at the moment are the estimated survey values of the AFD (A fascist party) 18%
@@Sabo-Tabby_Kitten The AfD is not a fascist party. They are the only party that truly cares about Germany and wants to save it from the stealing and corrupt immigrants who are bringing in crime and poverty. The German healthcare system is also complete shit because it is free.
You got start low then raise the Taxs when they all move in brk
The good old days where 20% taxes was considered way too much.
Real life always makes tiny ai simulation people seem much smarter than we are.
Really nice to see you play the latest Sim City game.
take me down to the max tax city where the price is too high and the sights ain't pretty
I love how the 20% tax rate is considered absurd beyond all reason. I wish we could get it that low.
Run for senator right after you bankrupted the city, Sounds about right
There should be a killdozer event in this game.
The fire guy was passively-aggressively dabbing at you again, but you didn't ref the old video. AA, I reckon you could have maxed out a bit harder on the Jokes in this episode. The ending was great though.
you basically created a forge-world, and it works because workers phase in from other reallities or something? xD
Abominable Intelligence.
Baltimore City, MD is what happens with a max tax city IRL. A hellish landscape of death and despair
AA thanks for helping me win that bet by saying “exquisite watermelon”
Simply the best storyteller and game player on YT. I could listen to AA talk about the philosophical woes of gaming forever too damn long.
Galt's gulch with a big box over it propped up with a stick.
2:58 This end screen must be one of the greatest political commentaries of all time.
Wait until you found out that taxes in the Netherlands are about 40%
As a brazilian, I'm envious of your low taxes. And I wish I was joking.
Sim City was clearly designed by a bunch of Americans!
@@HansLemurson I think you might be there on to something my friend
only 40? in my country its over 50 of my salary gone from the start, then base tax over 24% for everything + all the hidden taxes, and fuel two times more expensive because of tax, and all other form of energy 3-5 times more expensive because of tax, all thanks to the gov monopoly, if i didnt pay any taxes i would have like 10 million euros in my bank, but instead i have 12....euro
I think that's about where American taxes are at when you combine State and Federal.
Makes sense that no one would want to live in a city that taxes them 20% on top of all that.
/Edit: Nevermind, looks like the average actual tax rate is a touch under 30%, counting both federal and local taxes. My point still stands about folks not wanting half their wages to functionally go up in smoke, though, even if you assume some overlap between the actual tax rate and the 20% in Max Tax City.
6:51 looks like he's holding up someone else's disembodied baby arms xD