Need to cut taxes on the dragon. This way he will spend his money and it will trickle down to the poor villagers. He would never hoard his wealth.
Every time the dragon burns down the village hard-working contractors are given jobs. That dragon is a job creator!
I am definitely getting a dragon to do my taxes
I have devils write all my wishes for me. I tend to hand my DM two to three pages of “this is what I mean, do not screw me over.” Their standard fee is 15,000 GP
I’ll cast the Wish/Miracle, I just make sure I’m getting what I want out of it.
Just get ChatGPT to do it (AI tools are subject to hallucination risks, please read the documents clearly before submitting)
GPT-4 is getting scarily better at avoiding hallucinations. I recently told it to hypothetically worldbuild based on a culture that I specified and it scarily has the niche knowledge regarding the culture. Whereas GPT-3.5 only uses general information to worldbuild.
I can provide a payment plan. I am very flexible. 800 Pure human souls, provided in 3 payments. No questions.
Came across a nice little book a while back, Axtara - Banking and Finance. It’s about a dragon who decides the best way to build a hoard is to set up a bank and let people just give their money to her for safekeeping. She actually does a good job of looking into what banks are for, though, and selects a recently-established town out on the fringes of civilization where there’s a lot of potential for future growth and development, planning to issue loans to help businesses get started and increase the overall wealth of the region. And thus the value of her own hoard, both in terms of the raw money in the vault and the value of the mortgages she holds.
This reminded me of that.
And then the party reminds the dragon that this is a fantasy world where the rich pay their taxes and cant use loopoles to avoid doing so.
I think winning that argument would require understanding the loophole. How well do you understand it? I freely admit my grasp of it is quite poor. I’d welcome insight from others.
If they work for the fantasy equivalent of the IRS, they probably understand tax law better than the dragon does.
If youre asking how well I understand the dragon’s argument, its basically arguing that until the assets are actually sold, their value is theoretical and therefore not taxable. While implying that they cant collect tax from the dragon anyway even if it could be taxed because it is hoarding said unsold assets not currency/gold with a well defined value which is a “thats the dragon’s problem not ours” situation.
Dragon murders adventuring party.
Dragon builds a hoard with the funds from selling the magical items
Dragon loans this hoard to another dragon for it to gestate it’s whelplings.
Dragon approaches lich with request for a loan with the lease, horde itself, and location of the whelplings as collateral.
Dragon is granted loan.
Dragon files for bankruptcy. As it is “thousands of gold in debt”.
Kings vizer (also a dragon in disguise) assesses lair for taxable revenue, “it’s lookin like a rummage sale.”
It ain’t me
It ain’t meee
I ain’t no fortunate son.
‘well, you still have to pay property tax for this lair. That and those stock dividends are taxable’
IRL if ALL your money was tied up in the market, you’d be kinda fucked.
If we tax the dragon, who in the village will have a job?
