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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ixal" data-source="post: 8817687" data-attributes="member: 7030132">Problem is there is no need for the Citadel as an intermediary as traders can simply take another portal out and are at the end of their trade route where they get much better prices thanks to lower taxes and also can take goods back instead of relying that the Citadel has something they need on sale at inflated prices thanks to taxes, thus increasing their profits.Trade hubs tend to take low taxes to encourage trade. The Citadel does the opposite takes high taxes which is usually done to protect domestic products from competition.The other problem is that the writer of the book did not understand how import taxes work and specifically calls out consumer goods the Citadel has to import like animal products to be taxed heavily which in the end only hurts your own people as they are the ones who have to pay the price. In some cases they even hurt themselves as everyone in the Citadel gets a basic income to support themselves with a dignified lifestyle, meaning the Citadel has to pay out more money in order for the people to pay increased prices because of taxes, negating the entire point of the high import taxes in the first place.And when popular dishes in the Citadel includes saffron you know that they have to pay a lot of money because how else would the people living in the Citadel make money without any apparent form of industry in the city which lacks raw resources to make something and also heavily taxes any resources coming into the city which means any manufactured goods produced with them would be extra expensive and thus traders are unlikely to buy it as they can't profit from it.</blockquote>

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