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Just a quick preface, for the longest time, my taxes have been at 0%, and I make lot's of pro-business decisions that I know for a fact would otherwise lower taxes still, meaning they are pretty well into the ground.

So last night, I received the issue about flag burning. I took option 3 to ban it, as well as the option to boost education funding on the issue Budget Time: Accountants Excited (I believe it's titled, and I know this issue doesn't bounce up taxes very much, maybe a point or two), and my taxes have went from 0% for probably the last 6 months to 21%. Now, that's a kind of extreme bounce for one issue. Once I had an issue that bumped them up 7% and I thought that was way to much, but this is just insane. There is no way a country is going to see its national spending shoot up because it bans flag burning enough to warrent a 20ish% increase in taxes.

Is this perhaps a typo and it's only supposed to be a 2% bounce? That would make sense and be reasonable, currently, it's total crap the way it is. If it is supposed to be that way, it's clearly slanted as a way to punish dictatorships enough that they reconsider the whole thing.

Maybe taxes increase much more if they have been at 0% for a long time.

A good stab, but I don't think that would be it though, I've never came across anything like that before. I'm still taking a shot that it's either supposed to be a 2ish% increase or it's designed to... encourage... democracy, but I doubt that, as this game is actually usually pretty good about avoiding slanting to heavily one way or the other.

Also, just for disclosure and in case anyone hasn't guessed it yet, you know, with the completely different names and all, Bloodmoon-Abraxas is my puppet.

Ok, I'm a retard, but still sort of correct.

The flag burning one wasn't responsible, but I did still see a 20ish% spike in my taxes, and I believe it's actually whatever issue has a decision that results in the line:

"suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence"

I saw a 100% increase in income taxes and I still have no idea which issue it was, if any. I got this issue somewhat recently and allowed burning of everything (incidentally helping me become an Anarchy), so I don't think it's this one though.

I saw a 100% increase in income taxes and I still have no idea which issue it was, if any. I got this issue somewhat recently and allowed burning of everything (incidentally helping me become an Anarchy), so I don't think it's this one though.
I think the increase you refer to is in the issue in which one option is to make the rich pay 100% in taxes, but I might be wrong. Else it's a bug.

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