Chapter 3521 Research on Cats and Dogs (Sixty-nine)

But Schiller shook his head and said, "I don't have time to help you deal with them. You can contact the Pale Knight and stop them outside Gotham. You can accept all the benefits as you wish, and you don't have to give me anything."

"Are you sure you don't participate?" Amanda looked at him and said, "The customer behind him cannot be just for you. It should be related to the recent martial law in the Metropolitan area. Don't you want to pull out the mastermind?"

"If you can pull the mastermind behind the scenes, the entire Justice League will thank you." Schiller looked at him and said, "I won't participate."

"Okay." Amanda shrugged and said, "I didn't expect them to thank me. It's just that some alien criminals touched the nerves of the congressmen and made them have some unrealistic fantasies."

"What do they want to do?"

"Of course, it is to use the power of aliens to deal with the Soviet Union."

"That is, in their opinion, the Soviet Union is more terrifying than aliens."

"It's not new. If we can deal with the Soviet Union, what's the point of cooperating with aliens? Even if it's a bill that will sell the entire earth, they will sign it."

Schiller sighed and said, "What are they going to do?"

"The wind I heard was that they were going to take the initiative to contact the guy who brought the Metropolitan martial law."

"Then what?"

"Then I guess they have no good way to impress him. After all, this guy came for the Metropolis, and the Metropolis is under the control of the Luther Group."

"Luther is not Wayne." Amanda shook his head slowly and said, "This guy has a strong desire to control himself, and he is cruel and ruthless. If someone dares to touch the Metropolis, he will definitely make them look good."

"Will Congress surrender?" Schiller asked.

"The Luther Group has a great say in medicine and military industry. Lex Luther is the leader of Anss now. Whoever he wants will die will not survive. The Metropolitan City has given him, so what room does Congress have to give in?"

"Then they dare to cooperate with aliens?"

"Combining with aliens is the only way to turn this situation around. They are probably betting that Luther dares not kill them all."

Schiller laughed and said, "This makes sense. After all, if you kill them all, it will not be easy to select so many stupid people in a short time."

Amanda sat down on the sofa next to her and thought, "This seems to be a game between aliens and earthlings, or a game between the United States and the Soviet Union, but in fact, it is still a game between the federal government and local governments."

"If even aliens cannot enter the Metropolis this time, everyone will know that someone can prevent the Federal order from being passed into the Metropolis, and the Metropolis will not have to pay any price. Then it will be difficult for the federal government to implement anything."

"Do you think this will exacerbate the division in the United States?"

"There is no room for division in the United States to intensify. We are the federal government itself, and each state is equivalent to a small country. I am just worried about division in New Jersey."

"Do you think the metropolis will go out on its own?"

"Lex Luther is doing that. He's turning the Metropolis into another country, you know which one I mean. It means that from the system to the economy to the mind, the Metropolis will gradually move away from New Jersey."

“Isn’t this good?”

"Actually, I don't care whether the Metropolitan will be independent. The key is that once the Metropolitan is gradually drifting away from New Jersey under the leadership of Luther, the political, economic and cultural centers of New Jersey will become Gotham."

Amanda looked at Schiller and said, "Do you think this is a good thing? Let this paradise full of madmen and killers become the center of the Northeast?"

"You are talking about Gotham in the past..."

"No, according to my observation of your new mayor, he is also a lunatic."

"Although he has been working hard to increase subsidies to the lower class?"

"That's why I said he was a lunatic."

Schiller was speechless.

In the context of the United States, there is no slogan like "serving the people". Their slogan is to live in one's own life, seek blessings, and achieve their dreams with their own hands. If they cannot achieve success, find more problems.

When everyone doesn't even care about themselves, they still think about the people at the bottom. It really looks crazy.

"Although I should say now that I understand your concerns, I don't actually understand. Are you worried that Gotham will lead New Jersey to the abyss of madness so that all the people at the bottom here can get subsidies and people's lives will be better?"

Amanda rubbed his forehead with his hands and said, "I don't think it's good to subsidize people at the bottom, but you need to think about where the subsidy money comes from. Napier is already planning to implement a new tax law in Gotham, levied an additional 60% tax on the rich."

It was the first time Schiller heard the news. After pausing for a moment, he said, "This is pretty good."

"Do you know his definition of the rich?" Amanda sighed again and said, "College professors like you are also rich and are within the scope of collection. And the tax law may take effect this quarter, which means you have to be prepared to pay an additional 60% tax in March."

Schiller calculated silently in his heart. Although buying a house cost most of the money, the money he had was still enough to pay taxes.

"Where is the tax exemption policy?" Schiller asked.

"Don't think about it. The tax exemption policy is unprecedentedly strict. In the past, the virtual tax avoidance methods used to do charity and investment are useless. The tax exemption amount for physical investment and consumption has also dropped significantly. You all have to pay the money in real time."

Schiller observed a second of silence for his wallet, and then said, "Okay. The tax bureau should jointly enforce the law with the police, right? Otherwise, the taxes for those people would not be that easy to collect."

"You really don't worry about your assets at all?" Amanda looked at Schiller and said.

"It hurts a little, but not much." Schiller shook his head and said, "If I want to make money, I wouldn't be a university professor. For a long time, my salary just covered my living costs and I couldn't save a penny, but it didn't matter."

Amanda was speechless, and she said, "Well, you are a saint without desires. I am just worried that Napier's bloodletting therapy may bring chaos to the city again. After all, if you are rich, most of the middle class will suffer and they will not give up."

"I believe the mayor is a good deal," Schiller said. "He should have prepared some other solutions, and maybe we will know soon."

"Okay, you lunatics can play by yourself." Amanda stood up and said, "I will stop the killers as much as possible outside the city, but it is possible to run in one or two, just solve the problem on the spot, and you don't have to contact me anymore."

After saying that, she left. Schiller looked at her back and shook his head. Amanda was indeed much more mature, but she still hated madman, and it was so normal that it was a little abnormal.

Schiller really didn't know about the new tax law, so he opened his phone and searched it and found that what Amanda said was true. If nothing unexpected happens, he would pay about 60% more tax next time he filed taxes than last time.

Not everyone has enough money like him. Schiller probably wouldn't have been able to hand over if it was implemented so quickly. Napier wouldn't have done such a stupid thing.

Sure enough, continuing to slide down, Schiller saw the regulations that read "free from forced levy", which means that if you cannot submit it, you will not be forced to collect it.

This made Schiller a little confused. If this is the case, the middle class can also transfer assets and leave no penny in hand at that time. And he cannot force the levy, wouldn't he be able to collect much?

When he pulled down to the end, Schiller saw that the release date of this news was more than half a month ago.

He suddenly realized that something was wrong. The day the new tax law was announced should have caused a stir, but Schiller actually didn't feel any fluctuations in public opinion, as if everyone just accepted it calmly.

Even if you can escape by transferring assets, the middle class should have complaints. They should cause a lot of noise on the Internet, why isn't anyone talking about this?

Schiller felt something was strange, but he was not too confused. Anyway, his money was enough to pay taxes, so he didn't plan to transfer property, which was too troublesome. He would rather pay taxes than do that troublesome transfer of property.

Schiller thought about going to see the shop again, but the city center should have been blocked at this time. So Schiller chose to drive over from the inner world.

It was a coincidence today. Schiller had just driven out and passed by a car. He didn't see who it was, but he just guessed that it might be a professor in the Magic Academy.

But on the way to the city center, he felt something was wrong, because he saw a lot of people - to be precise, many humans, and of all ages, and he was not a student of Gotham Magic Academy.

When we went to the city center, there were more people like this, and many of them gathered in groups on the roadside, pointing at the buildings on the street.

There were actually several people discussing the glass of Schiller's window at Schiller's new store. Schiller got out of the car and walked over. One of them said to him enthusiastically: "You also see the house here? It would be nice to ask me to see this one, but unfortunately the shopping guide said that this one had been sold, so it would be great if I had come early."

Schiller looked at him. This was a lady who looked well-maintained. The bag in her hand was expensive and looked like a rich man.

"I am the owner of this house, but I bought it a long time ago."

"Oh my God, then you're a magician, aren't you? They said there have been only magicians here. You look like a professor at that magic university, are you?"

"That's right." Schiller nodded and said, "What are you doing?"

"Looking at the house." The lady smiled and said, "Mr. Mayor said that the world will soon open its authority to ordinary people. You can enter early by paying a tax. We are planning to come here to invest first. The land in the city center may increase a lot in the future."

Schiller covered his forehead. He knew how the outrageous tax law was implemented, and he was qualified to buy the first-hand experience.

However, this is indeed a clever trick. Using this method to collect funds from the rich can indeed solve the urgent problem when the existence of the li world cannot be announced with great fanfare.

Rich people spend money to buy the qualifications for investment, enter the inner world to invest, and then convert their money into subsidies and send them to people who have no money outside. They can steal the dragon and turn the phoenix.

Build the inner world into a real garden city, and then apply extra tax on the qualifications to enter the inner world in the future, so that the rich can spend money and enjoy it in the inner world, and then use this money to subsidize the poor outside, and improve everyone's living standards to a higher level.

However, the premise of doing this is that the money will be used to subsidize the poor. It can only be said that to achieve this effect, all the next mayors of Gotham must be good enough.

At this moment, Schiller suddenly realized the key point. The Pale Knight deliberately lowered the threshold for collection so low just to include himself.

I am not afraid of paying taxes, because taxes are the key to maintaining social welfare. But if one day I know that I have paid so much taxes but have not been used in the main place, but have been greedy, then the mayor can basically choose the lakeside ranks he likes.

It's really a good way to drive away the tiger and swallow the wolf.
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