Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page99 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n That\u2019s why the Chamber funds only the highways and defence. And it means that a small civil service is enough to help deliver pubic goods<\/em>. It also means that everything else has to be paid for. If you want it, you pay for it. If you want a bank account, you pay the bank a regular fee!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere are two other types of taxes in Wolfland. An import duty on certain types of goods. And a local tax on properties, both residential and commercial. The local tax is devoted entirely to local amenities like street cleaning, refuse collection, the libraries and the fire brigade, etc. The whole machinery of central government relies on the sales tax, when people buy things, and on some import duties, when commercial traders import certain things.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Rafone returns to his original question.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, what exactly is the Work Impost<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n Complete silence! Again!<\/p>\n \u201cWho funds this school?\u201d<\/p>\n With a slightly nervous, questioning tone Kayt suggests, \u201cgovernment?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cInteresting! But no! Let\u2019s try it this way. Who pays my wages?\u201d<\/p>\n A few whispers go around the class. Without responding directly to Mr Rafone, a spontaneous discussion develops among the students.<\/p>\n \u201cParents! If everything else has to be paid for, and parents want their kids to be educated, then surely they\u2019re the ones who are paying?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy parents don\u2019t pay! They have no money at all!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNor does my mum, well that\u2019s what she keeps telling me!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cInteresting!\u201d says Mr Rafone, \u201cwhy parents?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo that we\u2019re better qualified, we get better jobs, and we earn higher wages?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOK, aside from parents, who else might be paying for this?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTeachers?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOr the students themselves?\u201d<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page99 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page99 \u2013 Next That\u2019s why the Chamber funds only the highways and defence. And it means that a small civil service is enough to help deliver pubic goods. It also means that everything else has to be paid for. If you want it, you pay for it. If you want a bank … Continue reading “Chapter 13 Work or Die099”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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