Cities: Skylines, 0% Tax City...
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Cities: Skylines - the 0% Tax City - a challenge I have long avoided since it looked implausible. Thanks to "unconventional" modern fiscal strategies, now you can have a city that simply doesn't tax its population.
10 meteors were destroyed during the making of this video...
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0:00 Intro
1:42 City 1
3:03 City 2
4:08 City 3
5:23 City 4
6:27 City 5
9:25 Final Destination
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'Pays 200 bucks everyday to walk from one side of town to the other'
"Thank god there are no taxes in this free city!"
this is how people play free to play games with microtransactions
No different from real life where some people pay low taxes but then pay a heck of a lot for many other basic necessities :P
Even states/countries with no income tax "appear" this way. They get them out of you another way, they always do ;)
If I had to pay $200 every time I left my house I would be paying less tax then I am right now
@@SoManyZubats doubtful that’s 73000 a year in fees, unless your making over 200k a year
I love that your solution was essentially "taxing" people but not calling it "taxes" by way of "amusement park" entrance fees in between locations
He could be a president at this point
Pretty much how real right libertarianism would work in practice
He even slipped up and called them taxes, lol
It's almost like taxes are inevitable or something if you want to upkeep infrastructure and services or something
@@elvingearmasterirma7241Cospaia and Acadia would beg to differ
incredible, he managed to invent pedestrian toll booths
Coming to America in 2024
There are such bridges in many places. One got famous in India a few years ago when several dozen people (if my memory serves me well) drowned in the river underneath when it got overloaded.
If you went off the wear they do to the road like they do with cars the cost would be literally pennies, I'd honestly be willing to pay that if it means not risking my life everytime I step outside
they didn't model fueless inexpensive cosmic energy reactor into the game, which is available since 1950.
My favourite part of this was that the whole time trying to avoid taxing people, you've created a system that relies on one of the most hated tax form - tolls
This video is basically 'city skylines without taxes'
step one: how to disguise taxes
Step one is literally every country out there lol
Even "libertarian paradises" would have to start taxing eventually. They just wouldn't call it taxes.
@@burnttoast26 "Regular Sustenance Payments"
@@burnttoast26 RENT
My compliments to you
The people of the city: "isn't this just taxes with extra steps?"
AA: "no...." *Summons meteors from the heavens*
Taking a fee for walking through the city = taxes with extra steps (nice)
NYC does this. Try entering or leaving without paying tolls. And that's on top of absurdly high taxes for sketchy services at best.
@@badlaamaurukehu probably cuz nyc a big city and actually needs money 😱
@@fewkeyfewkey5414 it's because NYC is hell on earth
"Don't question it."
-AA Probably
"They're not taxes, they're tolls."
"What's a toll?"
"A tax."
It's just too bad that private companies can't provide services due to game limitations, I'd love to see a Rouge fire station shaking down residences for cash in order to put out the fire
Hell yeah, civil war era New York baby!
Like Marcus Crassus🪙
@@MM-vs2etwat
Based and free marketpilled
cyberpunk edgerunners ambulance be like
Taxation is theft, and the right to choose to commute through a series of expensive yet barren amusement parks to survive is FREEDOM
Now this guy gets it
The thing with libertarianism is that supporters of it don’t want the capitalists to pay taxes, just us workers. Of course, this is also the same way in all systems of capitalism.
@@TheAxeaman wrong
And in the great words of the most American William Wallace "FRRREEEEEDOOOOOM"
@@squidwardo7074 wrong?
EA: These are not Lootboxes, they are surprise mechanics
AA: These are not taxes, they are tollroads and semi-forced amusementpark fees.
Sounds like New York.
This isn't a shipping fee, it's free shipping locked behind a monthly subscription.
This isn't a game made for your amusement, it's a business practice explicitly targeted at stupid people that people who are not stupid have no reason to complain about.
@@renakunisaki that's just Amazon Prime
@@godlaake6034 *sound of a cash register heard in the distance*
It`s okay, friend, you got your paycheck.
You can stop shilling for amazon now.
Theres a more...decrete way of getting rid of dumps and graveyards that are full, you turn off the building making the workers leave, then you use the collapse building button on it then rebuild. I call it a "controlled demolition".
8:38 actually, its way more profitable to just zone them all like one park which has a lot of small side entrances. and more importantly, with every star level it gets, the ticket prices also go up. so its a really good idea to invest into your parks
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.
wow.
What?
this copypasta is fuckin' old, lmfao
last time i saw it was on SLS... like how many months ago?
Love it
@@debesys6306 honestly i'm not sure, i believe it was written a long while ago
Ambiguous is gonna get in a lot of trouble when the meteor of August 2024 hits
Lol
A suspiciously small meteor hitting a landfill
He's also going to get in trouble if there's a big fire in August 2023
@@Godsire well, from last summer experience, I guess the only matter will be to know which one he was talking about
@@JoFriedrich depressingly true
"You want me to pay 5% more in income tax for healthcare? Uhhhhh no thanks I would rather pay 15% in a private market"
More like 150%, if you look at costs for Americans vs literally any developed country on earth
@@StalkTheHype capitalism, i bet if hospitals gave realistic prices it would be payable for normal people.
@@StalkTheHype Yeah 'cus it's not like healthcare is extensively regulated in the US
something something government regulation artificially limits amount of healthcare workers and services something something free market good something something I'm gay
@gta1kev nope, I live in Poland where public healthcare is 100% free. But if you choose a private healing then it's still not that cheap.
Ah yes, the best way to make a tax-free city: by instating a system of not mandatory but extremely compulsory fines that are unavoidable in modern daily life. Libertarianism at work, and it's surely beautiful.
I love how he goes full circle and refers to the amusement parks as "tax income" at 8:41
Thought i was the only one who noticed that.
Yea I noticed too. Its hilarious
The mask slips!
Freudian Slip
Literally
Time to validate my entire economic belief system by watching a lizard man play a city simulation video game.
Based
@@chad007. Based.
And it only took 5 attempts! That surely validates all your long-held socioeconomic and political views
Edit: What have I started?
@@jmdibonaventuro Cospaia seemed to get it the first try...
@@theakbars98 ...The tiny microstate that was desolved in 1826?
Its like when a bill doesn't have a tax, but does have a "convenience charge".
The great fire of August 2023 is starting to sound ominous
...And unintentionally created a libertarian utopia in the process
Hello mister
Hiii
Love this new vid!
Anarchism go brr
Hello there
I fully LOLed from beginning to end.
The Amusement Parks are genius. "You don't have to walk through them. You could just stay at home. It's your choice"
florida
Smart working
Finally, a truly American city.
Dude I haven't laughed so hard in a while. Absolutely hilarious video. Please never stop doing this.
I'm still laughing while reading comments XD
Paying 200 dollars to walk across town instead of taxes is the video game equivalent of the US paying thousands for health insurance instead of taxes.
I dont even live in America and I did a laugh/sob at that
Yeah, or states with no income tax that have absurd sales tax, property tax, and "use tax". But hey! No income tax.
@@PushingDownDaisys thankfully they don't do that
Haha, the only difference is that in this city the ghoulish parasites are amusement park moguls instead of health insurance moguls. At least the whimsy is a little bit of a plus? Until the meteor of course.
sadly, we pay both. :(
the government secretly redirecting meteors to blow up problem areas sounds like a great movie plot lmao
That is the inciting incident of Starship Troopers
and a great real life plot, its basically happened already, just on a smaller scale
@@squidwardo7074 yeah except they used planes instead of meteors
Sounds like a plot for The Bad Guys 2.
I remember a movie similar coming out around 2001
No taxes.
Just smells like taxes with more steps.
Good on ya mate! 👍🤠
9:00 One of the best lines I have ever heard.
I like how you replaced residential, commercial and industrial taxes, only to replace them with a high tax on walking to work...
Look, you get to live here free, work here for free, and have your business here for free.. moving around the city though? That's going to cost you.
@@Eventide215 Guess ill need to live in my business which is my work. Elon Musk style.
Thats basically the libertarian's whole idea. They want to ONLY pay for whatever they use, so you would pay a monthly fee to use a road, a monthly fee to be able to have your house put out if it catches fire, a monthly fee for garbage collection. You know, definitely NOT taxes with extra steps and the ability for a private corporation to fuck you as hard as they want.
It's not a Tax, it's a Toll!
@@PushingDownDaisys you mean living out the back of his car given his shit deal to buy twitter xD
AA: *Calls first two cities as dumpster fire*
Third city: *Ah yes let me show you true fire*
And the final city has its problems solved with a sort of dumpster fire.
I absolutely died when I heard "No one would suspect the meteor of August 2024 was an inside job".
Whatever is necessary to not pay taxes!!!!
The "amusement park" walks absolutely killed me 💀
The morale of the story is there's always a tax. Sometimes it just goes by a different name.
Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and chirpyland
The moral of the story is that tax lowers morale.
some times that name is "meteor of august 2024"
Well, the difference is that you're forced to pay tax, if you don't pay it you're gonna go to jail.
And a lot of the ways you can make the tax not look like a tax are extremely inconvenient, inefficient, and unsustainable.
Imagine your city hall employing a mad scientist under the table to create a meteor magnet just so they can drop it on their own city in order to address garbage complaints
100% chance this is a warhammer40k story.
Putin did something like this to justify Ch3chen w2r
"WHY ARE YOU ANGRY THE TRASH IS GONE ISNT IT!!!"
And dead bodies
You know, it is currently August 2023 and there indeed was a great fire...
I can't help but feel all the efforts to make money in this attempt actually are basically just taxation though hahaha.
You basically invented Disney World a few times. A privately run city that's largely amusement parks with large entrance fees.
Except Disneyland doesn't deal with dead people
@@samuelmade5776 not that we know of
Disney World was a local government. They have the authority to tax, raise municipal bonds, and erect local laws. This right was given in the 1960s and taken away in 2022 because Republicans didn’t like Disney’s CEO condemning a bill targeting LGBT kids. As a side note, no one knows what’s going to happen to Disney’s 1B in municipal debts, or how maintenance in Disney World will occur.
@@samuelmade5776 oh they definitely have some skeletons in their closet
@@samuelmade5776 With how many people visit the park they definitely do.
This feels like a setting for a dystopian novel, written by someone who thinks its utopian for some reason.
Bruh stop Ayn Rand is already dead
@@sakuuuto yeah, that's one mercy we all get.
*Welcome to Rapture City. No gods, no king, only man.*
Nobody said that
@@thebiggestcheems Not really, Rand is like herpes, the gift that keeps on giving.
love you Robbie, didn't realize how fucking crazy big your channel grew. big happy my friend. can't wait for the dwarf fortress videos
(not the vods currently, the time for that eludes me)
that was hilarious! As a resident of California I am curious about the "no personal income tax" world of Texas and other states...
I love it how the videos are so chaotic compared to livestreams
That was fantastic, I'm not witty enough to write something funny. I was raised in this dull community of endless happiness. We had 4 parks, a zoo and no taxes. But I dumb
🤣🤣
"When do we get to the ride?"
"This IS the ride! Yippeeeee!"
I keep reading this and it's making me lose my shit lmaooo
If you have to pay $200 to commute to work, you’d have to make $25 an hour to break even. The median wage in the US is $19 per hour.
This takes death and taxes to a new level
My favorite part about the jet ski ride pavilion is how the water is 30 feet below the pier
It doubles as a Tower drop ride that way
the thrill is figuring out how to not die from the jetski fall
We may have no proper sanitation, a poorly educated population, meteors, and have to pay $400 to get to work, but at least we're free 💪😤
Now hold on a damn second, that sounds really familiar somehow...
*F R E E D O M*
My addiction to Amphibian-based UA-cam Content is insatiable
Bro literally predicted the fires in Hawaii (August 2023)
Have you ever done a 99% tax challenge? I would love to see the other side of the extreme
I think ita impossibly unlike 0% tax. Even with very high happiness, max tax causes people to abandon. Stretch to get passed 14%. With income, there are other sources outside of tax.
In terms of tax rates, during 1973-74, India witnessed the highest marginal tax rate (including surcharge) of 97.75%. It was gradually brought down to 50% in 1991-92 and further slashed to 30% in the following years. Currently, it stands at 42.7%.
It happened in reality in India, thats how common people learned how to evade tax
In sweden we pay in total around 55-60% in taxes, when you take into account things like groceries, gas etc, and of course regular tax on your salary.
@@itzswedieThat's not how anyone calculates taxes.
So what I learned:
To have a tax free economy we would need to live in shacks at dirt roads. The coorperations running the theme parks would pretty much rule the country as all the revenue comes from them.
Walking to work costs money. And at some point the trash and corpses would start to pile up everywhere ...
*Insert Just in Ohio meme*
Pretty much. Some people in the comments have stated in a Libertarian society private companies would build and maintain the roads but I've yet to see why they would do so as well, they're a private company and thus exist to make money. Meaning pretty much profit gouging tolls.
@@junova7503 There's a city in India that's basically completely run by corporations. They did actually build their own private infrastructure and services (streets, a subway system, a police force, firefighters) but only built those things where their customers (wealthy corporate types)were. Other parts of the city are absolute shitholes with unpaved roads. Also, since there isn't a sewage system in the entire city, buildings (even the luxury apartments in the wealthy neighborhoods) have septic tanks which are emptied by trucks who dump everything in the river. Here's a video about it ua-cam.com/video/uD0bR7JXI6k/v-deo.html
@@KarlSnarks Lmao perfect. Reminds me of Disney World in Florida. It was granted authority to govern itself by Florida and have their own firefighters, police, etc yet only like 40% of the employees can afford dental care. Obviously not as bad as that city you mentioned but given how much income Disney World generates...
@@junova7503 "Profit gouging tolls"
How do you define what's profit gouging or not? In reality, the more competition there is, the lower the profits of the competitors because they must charge reasonable rates to remain attractive. Service providers in more attractive areas may be able to charge more as there is more demand, but they still must keep their rates reasonable or lose business.
Also Disney is a poor example as people want to work there not for the money but because they want the chance to be part of it. It's similar to volunteers in a military who are being sent to die but think they're part of some greater good.
Or do some reading on company towns of the 18/1900s.
Some functioned very successfully, like Hershey, PA.
I laughed all the way through this. Great stuff!
9:37 Man had such an authentic city simulator experience he even went through conspiracies
Needs a toll booth in every citizens’s driveway 😂
The daisy chain of amusement parks that are actually just a path is hilarious 😂
The people: "No taxation without representation"
Ambiguousamphibian: "are you sure about that?"
Thank you now i can just show this video instead of explaining every time to the idiots who think we should have no taxes.
“That burned down, fell over, THEN sank into the swamp. But the _fourth_ one, stayed OOP!”
but faaaaather! I don't want to get married!
@@SALEENS7GTR5 Don’t want her?! 🤬 What’s wrong with her?! She’s beautiful, she’s rich, she’s got yuuuuuuuge…
…
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Tracts of land!
I used to think libertarian ideals were naive, but now I realize the value of guided meteor impacts! Also, charging for the road like it's monopoly & every step lands you on someone else's property. 😂
@@dylanswift5185 They were talking about the board game Monopoly, buddy.
It does make me laugh when people think that libertarian ideology is something you are able to express on limited game mechanics...
Welp as some say, without a fool life is hard.
@@Finnishnat-conservativedot7126There was a game that they did implement zero tax and it worked better than any other system they tried. Can't remember the name unfortunately or I would share it (saw it on UA-cam years ago).
Hey cool, another guy who's never actually talked to Libertarians.
@@ericdugal8818how did they start the game with zero taxes?? Oh wait u can’t. Literally libertarianism ideals fall short at the first step
5:26 "I didn't fail, I successfully lost!"
These keep getting better!
This style showing the cities that went wrong is good. When you just do the best city of looks like there weren't any effort because we don't know how hard it is.
0% tax city: achieved! And all it took was an immense toll on our physical and psychological well-being.
(Just try to ignore the smoking crater at the edge of town)
Finally, the ancap paradise we’ve been looking for!
Fail, it was all centrally planned 😂😂
I see. I see, I will pay tax Ok? just do not strike me with a meteoroid
"Thereby Doubling out monthly tax income" - Wait a minute.
Can’t wait for my city to adopt this system so no more taxes! Already bought a season pass to the amusement park and moved right next door to our city landfill 😊
it's just perfect. that final shot with the crater and the fire, but no taxes. Definitely no taxes
I usually do a similar thing in my serious cities. Parks make great separators between noisy areas like highways and businesses and residential, so often make many long thin parks. This often ends with the park being the shortest path. Beautiful and nice :)
"Should we program a scenario in which walking to and from work is higher than the wages the person will make?"
You're definitely my favourite city building amphibian
Godzilla is my favourite city unbuilding amphibian.
"The perfect city does not need taxes"
>Must walk through four amusement parks to reach work
>$200 to walk from one end of town to the other
>Fragrant abundance of uncollected corpses and garbage mixing with mandatory amusement park food
"Yessir. The Perfect City"
Me: pays 200 to pass trough the city
Grandpa: Goes through the field
Haha, love this idea! This is going to be good!
LMAO YOU'RE HERE???
This brings me a lot of joy.
LMAO YOU'RE HERE???
such a hilarious concept. I would love to see you attempt is as well :D
I once ruined one of my cities by kicking out all the residents by cutting off services and raising taxes, then managed to fund the remains of the massive ghost town with a fishing industry, despite no longer getting any tax money. Was pretty goofy X3
Enjoyed to a great extend, thank you!
Wow!
This was thought provoking!
:)
Thanks for sharing !
I love the commentary on these videos so much--just the deadpan delivery cracks me up every single time
The dirt road parts had me laughing a lot 😂
It is realistic, nobody wants to pay for a road, but everybody needs a road.
libertarian moment
Great work! You did such a good job with that city!
This video is the perfect embodiment of "there's always a catch" 😂
This is a really good video. And while posting this comment costed me 200$, I paid them out of my own free will.
Truly the most evolved societal system of them all
Its almost like taxes and government are...
NECESSARY...
or...
SOMETHING?!?
I laughed so hard at the solution in the end 🤣
This is actually a really great video to explain and show to people WHY taxes are needed and why it's bad when rich people get out paying their taxes.
No it isn't lol, it's a video game
@@Frille512Ur right tho. We don't need a video game in order to understand libertarian ideals are impossible and horrible to live under.
@@wilforddraper1894in cities skylines there is no: private Hospitals, private traffic, private cemetery services, private schools, private aiports, private ports... that's why in the game a city doesn't work without taxes
@@wilforddraper1894 a game made by libtards ofc it wont work, how can society exist without daddy government doing stuff???? government is a magician, without them the private sector who literally sends shit to mars wont be able to pour down 5cm thick asphalt on ground
Building mandatory toll roads everywhere in a city sounds like taxes lol
Completely voluntary - nobody is forcing them to drive there!
Hey now, it's only fair they contribute to the services they're choosing to use.
Can you go "I don't need X service provided by the government in exchange for my taxes therefore I wont pay the taxes" without getting screwed legally?
@@DebasedAnon no
hey know no need to throw shad on New york city and their lovely tolls
You've got me on a management game kick! I want to give this game a try despite it being a little overwhelming for me. Thanks for inspiring me!
I recently picked it up through the Steam Winter sales. Highly addicting.
The chaos in this video us amazing and I'm here for it, I'm gonna watch another video and probably subscribe, love this kind of content
"Too stupid to work in office."
That is impossible, sir.
My favorite part was when you slowly lose your sanity and the music descends into madness.
6:35 ambiguousamphibian builds a slightly less chaotic version of Orlando
LMFAO
This is why we need a crowd funding mod but I'm too dumb to know how to code it. There are a few mods that add supercheap services buildings, generally designed for Ancient, Roman and fantasy styles. Those actually work to cut costs.
There needs to be a mod that has private healthcare, police, fire, sewer, etc. And just watch the city grow randomly without city planning.
0 Taxes and no cooperations wanted to come... This is so unrealistic it hurts lol
Well companies don’t want to be in such a place except that they want to have their office there.
I'm shocked the crematorium is so expensive in this game since burning large numbers of bodies is so cheap and feasible while fighting a multi front war without any fuel (with people that refuse to pay the entrance fee at the quadruple amusement park road in of course.) Minor gripe, probably nothing.
This is now the Compliment Section.
It’ll be like jeopardy where you form every answer like a question. Except every insult has to be formed as a compliment.
Amazing! Very instructive.
Truly the amusement-park-and-meteor-based economy we all deserve.
Vergil: I’m moving there.
Still gotta pay child support though
@@Torodes23, He’ll never pay as long as he lives.
Vergil? The Roman poet?
all libertarians should be required to watch this video
Your videos always entertain and make me laugh. I often do wonder how many hours you put into making these though...