And it's not the $75 tab you got in Monopoly (unless you bought a new game, it's up to $100), it was $26.9 million. Which is actually less than what Alex Rodriguez will be paid in 2009.
The Tigers owe $1.3 million in luxury tax. Again, Detroit is not the place to for a good ROI.
Luxury Tax was raised and the Income Tax was changed to a flat $200. You used to have the option of paying 10%, but since that amount included all your properties, you'd usually be better off paying $200.
2 Except that the 10% option could help you out if you'd had exceptionally bad luck. It was a play-balance mechanism. Granted that it was not often used, but if you were in a position to make use of it, boy, you could use any break you could get.
Whoever decided to make this change, I hope they thought it through and had player feedback to back it up. You don't mess with the classics lightly.
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Income Tax wasn't a frequently landed-on space, so the number of times you would get with it and with less money and property on hand would be fairly unlikely.
In the new version of Monopoly, the players are started off with more cash (I believe it's $2500 instead of $1500), so it's even more likely that a player will have more than $2000 on hand unless they are about to go bankrupt.
If you go bankrupt to the bank in Monopoly, the game goes on for a long time because the bank has to immediately auction off all the properties. This redistributes the deeds and lets some people get a stronger position.
If you go bankrupt to another player, that player will likely win because they will have a huge edge in capital.
Whoever decided to make this change, I hope they thought it through and had player feedback to back it up. You don't mess with the classics lightly.
Hehe
what are you trying to say? ;)
'Chance' card:
"Your mortgage company just went belly-up. All your properties are foreclosed to the government."
Income Tax wasn't a frequently landed-on space, so the number of times you would get with it and with less money and property on hand would be fairly unlikely.
In the new version of Monopoly, the players are started off with more cash (I believe it's $2500 instead of $1500), so it's even more likely that a player will have more than $2000 on hand unless they are about to go bankrupt.
Bailout! The Fed has provided cash infusions to the holders of your risky mortagages. Pay off mortgages now without the 10% fee!
The rules are also a precarious balancing act and changes could have all sorts of unpredicted side effects.
And going bankrupt because you can't pay the income tax is just evil. Go to jail maybe.
If you go bankrupt to another player, that player will likely win because they will have a huge edge in capital.
One of the house rules among me and my friends is that if a player goes bankrupt (to the bank) the properties are just for sale again if landed on.
Monopoly is my favorite board game ever. Even if I am always the banker.
It's really bad.
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