Themed Community and Taxes/Stipend

I have to say I blanched when I saw the post "we have gobs of money for anybody that wants to work the wild west town."

While reading this, keep in mind that I LOVE working on the themed community and have no intention of pulling out. If I have to do it without shoes and begging for L$ so be it.

But how about spreading some of those gobs to tax breaks and stipend bumps for people working on non-wild-west linden-approved themed communites? The land allocation is great, but to use it we still have to buy it, and then pay standard taxes on everything we build on it. There are no breaks of any kind as far as I can see.

I know the idea is to make the community self sufficient, and I believe that's achievable...after a time. But lawdy please help us get it up and running before swinging the tax axe at full speed. Being taxed as a private resident for structures that are intended to be public (a city can't just be private homes) don't seem right.

The difference is that the WWT is contract work, you take a job, do the work, get paid and walk away.

In the themed areas projects, the builders own the project, and can use them to engage in whatever nefarious money-making schemes they can dream up.

On the other hand, I would like some money. (just, generally)

True and not true Wednesday. We work under restrictions that do not exist on ordinary residential land (prim and script counts) Nor could I just move my brownstone in Natoma to my patch of land in Nexus Prime. I "could" because it's "mine", but I'm under the impression it wouldn't last. The intent was to build a structure that could be used publicly for events and so on and that adheres to the theme of the community.

It's standard fair in any economy to assist a startup business/city with tax breaks and incentives other than taping off a square a land is all I'm sayin'. After phase 1 or 2 the breaks could be minimized or eliminated. But until then it's a killer and basically forces me to think of nothing except how do I grind more money out of the SL populace.

i tend to agree with tcoz...

a "booster" given to us in the first phase of the community would help greatly, allowing us to spend our time creatively planning the community, and figuring out how to make it better, instead of planning how to get more money, and how to make the community more lucrative, in hopes that we'll at least break even

yeah me and tcoz were talking about this yester day
the taxes are rediculis