[Discuss] New Tax System.

[Alex Davies]

>From: "Robert Croson, Jr" <robert at arcm.com>
>It's the dukes of the larger cities that are the ones that will be raking 
>in the big
>money under the new system. These are the people that have 2000 gold
>regions. They need 6 knights? Maybe 7? Each one gets a 4% oath for 84%
>(15% tax rate). The Duke sends 30% to the realm, and keeps ~40% for
>himself. That's ~840 gold per week for the duke. Under the old system where
>the duke was keeping a 15% share he was making 315 from the region, plus
>realm-wide taxes.

Dukes also have personal control over the ducal shares, which, if you can 
convince a couple of marquises (or whatever the plural of marquis actually 
is) to join and set a decent % to duchy, plus the aforementioned region 
share, means big $ for the duke who decides to withold it, or just hasn't 
set anything to realm yet. Being Duke FTW! :-)

>The knight doesn't "own" anything. In the BM sense of things, he is merely
>running it for his boss, the region lord. The region lord even pays him to 
>do so.
>

Sounds like a feudal equivalent of a franchise to me. Of course the lord 
can't be bothered to run all his McDonalds-esque tax offices personally to 
bring in the cash from the peasants, so he gets the knights do it, and in 
return, they get to a share of the profits.

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