Cities: Skylines, 0% Tax City...

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.

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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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Portrait of George Washington (1796) by Gilbert Stuart

[Seedmember]

'Pays 200 bucks everyday to walk from one side of town to the other'
"Thank god there are no taxes in this free city!"

[NoSoupForYouu]

I love that your solution was essentially "taxing" people but not calling it "taxes" by way of "amusement park" entrance fees in between locations

[Sprech]

incredible, he managed to invent pedestrian toll booths

[caitlin]

This video is basically 'city skylines without taxes'
step one: how to disguise taxes

[C_Sloth]

The people of the city: "isn't this just taxes with extra steps?"

AA: "no...." *Summons meteors from the heavens*

[Aone]

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

[LivingNihilism]

EA: These are not Lootboxes, they are surprise mechanics
AA: These are not taxes, they are tollroads and semi-forced amusementpark fees.

[garretteverett]

Taxation is theft, and the right to choose to commute through a series of expensive yet barren amusement parks to survive is FREEDOM

[shawnconway]

"They're not taxes, they're tolls."
"What's a toll?"
"A tax."

[knessovich]

I love how he goes full circle and refers to the amusement parks as "tax income" at 8:41

[pauloneufneufneuf]

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"

[fightingfinn]

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".

[thelootfinder]

Ambiguous is gonna get in a lot of trouble when the meteor of August 2024 hits

[ambiguousamphibian]

...And unintentionally created a libertarian utopia in the process

[schmeterling]

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

[grantwilliams]

Time to validate my entire economic belief system by watching a lizard man play a city simulation video game.

[Neoentrophy]

I like how you replaced residential, commercial and industrial taxes, only to replace them with a high tax on walking to work...

[kylew]

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

[matthewmccoy]

the government secretly redirecting meteors to blow up problem areas sounds like a great movie plot lmao

[Khadharphak]

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