Deep Space Habitats
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of Space Taxes
You probably take your payment and whatever you don't provide locally, which might be fuel, raw materials or hard-replicate items for your industrial base. I'm not sure where people will tend to draw the boundaries on server systems but I'm guessing when tax time comes around there'll be a lot broader with where those boundaries lie. Maybe some values like those directly between two stars or rich in gas have much higher rates. A barren asteroid the size of a mountain might be a proverbial gourd strike but the property tax on it might be huge and prevent casual colonization by an individual or small group. Now what's your community doing out there? Well of course they might just be folks who
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