New Gods of North America.

Chapter 392 Development
Give the extraordinary materials you brought back to Inissa,

Wayne walked in the courtyard of the detective agency and felt that the workload for renovation had increased again.

Several cabins have been destroyed, and Lina and Emma have to move to the office temporarily.
Some facilities can be added near the large warehouse, which will make climbing up and down, shooting, and climbing over walls more convenient in the future.

The river behind the detective agency has been initially controlled.
Sanders and his agents set up several fine nets in the river. They might not be able to catch anything, but the power of the large mammals should be able to pull away the wooden bars on the shore, which would then trigger the early warning device and make the iron barrel above fall with a sound.

New results came out again, and Seth and Emma were caught doing math problems again.

The lottery tickets for the "First Duel" were finally rounded up to 5000 tickets sold, each worth 10 cents, for a total of $500, a little over 23% of the first batch's total sales.

The bonus is 350% of the corresponding sales, which is US dollars.

According to statistics, there were 1893 lottery tickets that bought Wayne's winning numbers, which gives a prize of 18 cents per ticket, with a yield of 80%. There was some left over, which was put into the bonus pool of "How many games did Wayne win?"

From an absolute point of view, it is difficult to become very rich. If you buy less, it is about the same as drinking one glass in a bar.

Wayne did remember that Simon Sherman bought 200 tickets at once - mainly because Wayne couldn't sign them all, so he limited the number of tickets to him - so he could make an extra $16.

If this amount of money was given to an ordinary working class person, it would be almost two weeks' salary, but for the rich, they couldn't even come up with a double eagle gold coin, they were just showing their support.

When the results came out, some agents were also regretting that they could not participate in buying lottery tickets, otherwise they would definitely make a fortune.
Unfortunately, due to the need to avoid suspicion and limited production capacity, the members of the detective agency do not have this opportunity.

There were more letters from the mayor and little Taylor.

Taylor talked about something more mundane. He mentioned that more and more people have been passing through Black Rock Town recently, and there are also many gold prospectors digging around the town.

Some people seem to really regard the West as a completely "lawless place", which has caused a lot of jokes and made the iron cages in the police station and the gallows in the town very busy recently.

In his reply, Wayne specifically asked about the situation at home. If Inessa's previous "equipment" was still there, he could consider asking Pastor Huck to send someone to take it to the church. After all, the affairs of the church and the Exorcists Association should, in theory, be under the jurisdiction of local pastors.

The mayor talked about something bigger. The plan to officially establish Kanx State was under various negotiations.
He wanted to apply to have "Wichita", which was established after the establishment of Blackstone Town, as the capital of Kansas State, but this involved the issue of transferring land and paying profits, which required serious consideration.

There are actually only a few options for the state capitals of the states in the United States of America.
Before the invention of steam locomotives, the most "correct" way in theory was to choose the "geographic center" of the state, so that people from all over the state could go to the state capital relatively conveniently. The reason was impeccable.
A relatively convenient way is to choose a large and prosperous city. Anyway, most of the people with the most wealth and status will live there or own businesses there. However, the construction of state government offices requires expenses and occupied land. It depends on who is willing to pay.
If all else fails, choose a piece of “ownerless” land and start planning from scratch. This way no one takes advantage and everyone starts from scratch.

Blackrock Town is located close to the "geographic center", but it's not really central.
If we give up the competition, someone would be willing to invest to speed up the construction of the steam train line in Blackrock Town.

Wayne had no objection to this. The state capital of America was mainly a place for the state government to work and for congressmen to hold meetings. It usually did not contribute much to the local economy and might even have side effects.
For example, when it comes to promoting some things that are beneficial to the local area, there will be many people who are not related to the matter and will take the opportunity to cut the cake. So he said that he would respect the decisions of the mayor and council members, no matter what.

The mayor even gasped at Wayne as he read the letter.
——After Blackrock Town is officially established as a city and becomes "Wichita", it will start to levy "property tax".

At that time, the United States had not yet begun to levy the so-called "income tax", and the "strongest tax department on the surface" that Wayne was familiar with in modern society had not yet been born.

However, property taxes in America have already been levied.

The so-called "property tax" refers to the tax on "movable property" and "immovable property". The most concerned and familiar part of it is the famous "land tax" and "property tax".
If we roughly divide it, in this era, "land tax" can be roughly divided into two types:

One is to purchase "undeveloped land" from the federal government. This part is very cheap, and many landowners own large tracts of land in this way.
The other type is the land occupation/use tax collected by local governments, which is the so-called "big head".

Generally speaking, the same "landlord"
A landowner whose land was located in a "prosperous state" was assumed to be worth much more than a landowner who owned an equal amount of land in the West.

The reason is that the prices and taxes of "wasteland" and "cultivated land" are not equal.

The land and real estate in the United States are called "permanent property rights", but in fact, they should be called "long-term property rights".
Owners of land and properties need to pay corresponding taxes to the "local government" every year, otherwise they will be "forcibly reclaimed."

The logic is that the local government and people have "paid" for the appreciation of a piece of land, so the "expenditure" of individuals occupying the corresponding land will also need to increase accordingly. If you can't pay, please change places.

If the land price of a piece of land, for example a community, rises, then the land tax and property tax of all residents living in the community will increase.
If the income of some families cannot keep up with the rise in land and housing prices, they will gradually be unable to pay the corresponding taxes, and they will have no choice but to move away or wait for the corresponding land or house property rights to be confiscated.

This formed the common population migration and flow in the American Federation.
Wealthy communities pay more taxes, so the corresponding supporting facilities and living environment are better, and the land and houses are more expensive.

The original residents who gradually cannot afford to pay the taxes can only move out actively or passively, allowing people who can afford to pay the corresponding taxes to join the community.

This applies to residential land, and other more valuable lands are even more strictly governed.

As for the land owned by Wayne, if property tax is collected after the city is established, it will be a considerable expense that will increase year by year...

Oh my god,
Could it be that when I return to Blackrock Town, those lands will no longer belong to me?
Fortunately, the mayor still has a way. In order to commemorate those who have contributed to the development of Black Stone Town,
He and his fellow legislators specially prepared a bill that provided a certain number of tax-free years and quotas to families who "played a major role in the establishment and construction of the town", "originally lived in Blackstone for a long time", or "family members have held public office". In name, it benefits all existing residents of the town.

The Wayne family is considered one of the "founders" of the town. If you count Uncle Benjamin, the total number of years that family members have held public office is not short. So we don't have to worry about the land being confiscated for a few decades...

(End of this chapter)