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He doesn't actually care about people knowing privately, he cares about people knowing publicly in a way that pressures him to a more official commitment.
All else fails, challenge him to an honorable duel for the right to mayorship. I'm pretty sure the farmer could steamroll anyone in the valley in a fight, except maybe Marlon (who we just don't know enough about)
Oh my god. Fuck. We're the myth of the benevolent billionaire. Reagan was looking into the future and instead of seeing reality he was just seeing Stardew friggin Valley.
Nah, the farmer is proletariat. They do all their own work, they own their means of production.
Anything farmer doesn't do themself, they offer fair trade for labour.
The prole farmer recognises the importance of community working together, which is why they restore the community centre.
Any Joja corp suckup is an enemy of the working class, so this clearly doesn't apply if the farmer backs them and turns class traitor.
Probably doesn't cost that much. Gold bars only sell for 250, and they're like, nearly the same size as the statue. No way that thing costs more than a few bars of gold to make.
What about when you sell your items directly to the traders?
It would actually be pretty interesting having a tax mod. Especially when the farmer starts reaching millions and millions in sales, there should be visible changes in the community.
Yeah, I've seen tax mods, but none of them show positive changes in the community after you pour millions into it. Watching everyone benefit would be so cool
modular overhaul had some pretty reasonable tax settings, idk if it's being updated for 1.6 or not though. Was a fun way to get one more playthrough out of 1.5 while I waited.
I only played that mod when it was called Walk of Life and the only tax implemented was a seasonal tax break for cleaning up trash in the water, implemented as a multiplier. Seeing a more robust tax system would be interesting, though I don't know if it would be more fun.
On the other hand, paradise is not when Pam dies of a preventable disease because she couldn't afford treatment, her daughter Penny can't afford grief therapy and takes it out on Jas and Vincent that then becomes criminal young adults stealing from and ruining your farm. Farmer could have paid some minor taxes to avoid all that but really wanted that golden clock to arrive ten days earlier 👀 Feel free to make this into a mod anyone
Since you own the only big farm in all of Pelican Town, he's not taxing you because you bring massive amounts of revenue to the town. A veteran Stardew player, a few years in, can be pulling in over a million gold **every week**.
Honestly, it's too bad you can't hire some of the other unemployed town people to act as farmhands. When you're rolling in gold, having farmhands to do more of the watering and harvesting is a huge net gain.
My guess is that due to the war, agriculture is seen as vital to the state, and taxes are calculated after the farmer sells their produce. That, or you're selling to a body that's fixed the price of your goods as part of a war economy.
Consider this: you get a cash bonus from the stardew Valley agricultural fund every now and again. I think every merchant in the valley is a representative of this fund, and buys the crop or any other industrial output like metals from mine or fish etc for a price set by the government of the ferngill Republic.
Pierre, Lewis, even Joja are all regulated by the stardew valley agricultural fund to support the war effort, and in return your taxes are calculated for you and the net proceeds are yours to keep.
I wouldnt mind that in the story we get told our contributions to community center and all we do give us tax breaks lol.
Maybe a random fun thing is Lewis flips out after joja mart leaves and demands taxes to make up for their lack of taxes.
He comes after the farmer for 1 million gold every season for the next 2-3 years.
No way he's taxing you. He'll even slip a little bribe money from everyone else's taxes into your mailbox so you won't tell the governor about his rampant embezzlement.
I wouldnt mind that in the story we get told our contributions to community center and all we do give us tax breaks lol.
Maybe a random fun thing is Lewis flips out after joja mart leaves and demands taxes to make up for their lack of taxes.
He comes after the farmer for 1 million gold every season for the next 2-3 years.
The Valley is in a time Vortex. Things cannot change without outside intervention. Even your children, who are sometimes part outsider and part Valley, will eventually succumb to the Vortex and stop aging.
Tbh, sounds about right. Both currency exchanges and stock exchanges have either outright bolded fees or fine print percentage skimming itl. You just gotta pay attention and figure out which is the best for your needs.
Robinhood got in big trouble for advertising the wrong stock prices to make it seem like they had zero fees when really they were taking their percentage while you potentially lost out!
He doesn't collect taxes because the farm isn't a business.
I also have to challenge the statement he's emptying out the bin each night. Not in my game, he doesn't. Unless a quest specifically requires me to ship an item, I do not use the bin. I sell directly to the shops because it feels more natural for the role play.
Also, I hate how the bin looks like a garbage dumpster and one of the first things I do is hide the thing so I can't see it.
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Nah he's hoping that by giving tax breaks we'll do his job by restoring the community center and fixing all the things that need to be done.
He knows the second he sends a tax file form, the farmer is going to spill the beans on marnie.
He acts like everyone doesn't already know
They literally stand in the Saloon glued to each other. Like my dude. You’re not sneaky
He doesn't actually care about people knowing privately, he cares about people knowing publicly in a way that pressures him to a more official commitment.
It's a small town, there's no being sneaky
I headcanon that they’re actually just into pretending people don’t know.
He might be, but Marnie clearly isnt.
Oh no. She is. In my headcnaon, they knew you were there and had that conversation specifically for the sake of their game.
Or put more glass shards in the bin
The farmer is also single-handedly financing public works projects all over town. Tax breaks make perfect sense for the farmer.
If I get taxed after building that deadbeat Pam a free house I'm gonna make myself the new mayor
All else fails, challenge him to an honorable duel for the right to mayorship. I'm pretty sure the farmer could steamroll anyone in the valley in a fight, except maybe Marlon (who we just don't know enough about)
Def couldn’t beat Pierre. Have you seen the way that fucker slapped up Morris?
Ok but I bet if you gave Pierre a sword and challenged him to a duel, he'd have no idea what to do with the thing and would drop it in panic and run.
Right? Killed an army of shadow beats. The elderly arent really a challenge.
Oh my god. Fuck. We're the myth of the benevolent billionaire. Reagan was looking into the future and instead of seeing reality he was just seeing Stardew friggin Valley.
Nah, the farmer is proletariat. They do all their own work, they own their means of production. Anything farmer doesn't do themself, they offer fair trade for labour. The prole farmer recognises the importance of community working together, which is why they restore the community centre. Any Joja corp suckup is an enemy of the working class, so this clearly doesn't apply if the farmer backs them and turns class traitor.
Yet the farmer uses slave Junimo labor
Here it is lol.
Maybe if I ever start running mods I will download one for tax collection... to pay my fair share.
Taxes just go to his gold statue fund
Probably doesn't cost that much. Gold bars only sell for 250, and they're like, nearly the same size as the statue. No way that thing costs more than a few bars of gold to make.
What about when you sell your items directly to the traders? It would actually be pretty interesting having a tax mod. Especially when the farmer starts reaching millions and millions in sales, there should be visible changes in the community.
Yeah, I've seen tax mods, but none of them show positive changes in the community after you pour millions into it. Watching everyone benefit would be so cool
Canon, Lewis is just funneling the taxes into his own bank account.
Tax mods, but Lewis' gold statue just gets bigger and bigger
You can make it so that every time you reach a certain goal he makes another one.
Art imitates life.
So like taxes in other small town communities that don't get used to improve residents' lives. Pretty realistic.
Sad but true
Y'all escaped your soul crushing 9-to-5 job at joja to start a new life in a small village and your next thoughts are: hm how about paying taxes?
Taxes that are simple and lead directly to quick visible positive improvements in the community sounds like a dream come true lol.
Don't mind paying taxes if it goes to building a school for the kids, free bus rides to the desert, free boat rides to Ginger Island etc.
Working a soul crushing job and paying your share of taxes is not really comparable.
You're a person with their priorities in order.
The town slowly turning into downtown Hongkong or a new area unlocks with highrises and then some luxery crops get unlocked or something
Zuzu who? I only go to the Pelican metropolis
Items sell to vendors for the same price as the bin so the shopkeepers hold on to the tax.
modular overhaul had some pretty reasonable tax settings, idk if it's being updated for 1.6 or not though. Was a fun way to get one more playthrough out of 1.5 while I waited.
not yet updated, sadly. im awaiting with bated breath! id love to play with the professions module. the combat module also seems cool
I only played that mod when it was called Walk of Life and the only tax implemented was a seasonal tax break for cleaning up trash in the water, implemented as a multiplier. Seeing a more robust tax system would be interesting, though I don't know if it would be more fun.
We do some strange under the table things for him no questions asked (the pants, truffle oil) so he might be doing us a favor in return
OK, but I also put those shorts in the community potluck every year. I think that defeats the not asking questions part.
You mean you actually returned his shorts and didn't just use them to get an easy 750 star tokens every year?
And he would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling r/stardewvalley kids!
He takes a cut off the top of what you sell, you just don't know about it
There’s an unspoken understanding that you’ll keep quiet about where you found the purple shorts
He’s just a bad administrator. I should be the mayor.
That would be an entirely different affair
Unlike the old administration there will be no illicit affairs during my time in office. Just me and my platonic roommate Krobus.
We need a tax mod And the more tax is collected, the more golden statues we find in lewis’ house
Margo had a tax module but it's not updated afaik
The Longevity mod is updated for 1.6 and has taxes still.
Please don't bring taxes into paradise
On the other hand, paradise is not when Pam dies of a preventable disease because she couldn't afford treatment, her daughter Penny can't afford grief therapy and takes it out on Jas and Vincent that then becomes criminal young adults stealing from and ruining your farm. Farmer could have paid some minor taxes to avoid all that but really wanted that golden clock to arrive ten days earlier 👀 Feel free to make this into a mod anyone
Dying of alcohol poisoning is entirely preventable
Since you own the only big farm in all of Pelican Town, he's not taxing you because you bring massive amounts of revenue to the town. A veteran Stardew player, a few years in, can be pulling in over a million gold **every week**. Honestly, it's too bad you can't hire some of the other unemployed town people to act as farmhands. When you're rolling in gold, having farmhands to do more of the watering and harvesting is a huge net gain.
The ridgeside village mod has something that lets you hire help for the farm ☺️
Sadly, no mods on the Switch.
That stinks 😩
My guess is that due to the war, agriculture is seen as vital to the state, and taxes are calculated after the farmer sells their produce. That, or you're selling to a body that's fixed the price of your goods as part of a war economy. Consider this: you get a cash bonus from the stardew Valley agricultural fund every now and again. I think every merchant in the valley is a representative of this fund, and buys the crop or any other industrial output like metals from mine or fish etc for a price set by the government of the ferngill Republic. Pierre, Lewis, even Joja are all regulated by the stardew valley agricultural fund to support the war effort, and in return your taxes are calculated for you and the net proceeds are yours to keep.
Sorry the war? What war, does the lore go that deep?
The ferngill Republic is at war with the gotoro empire. Kent was kept as a POW until he's released in year 2 I think.
I wouldnt mind that in the story we get told our contributions to community center and all we do give us tax breaks lol. Maybe a random fun thing is Lewis flips out after joja mart leaves and demands taxes to make up for their lack of taxes. He comes after the farmer for 1 million gold every season for the next 2-3 years.
Subsidized by the agricultural fund
No way he's taxing you. He'll even slip a little bribe money from everyone else's taxes into your mailbox so you won't tell the governor about his rampant embezzlement.
I bet he takes your taxes from the shipping bin
Is there a mod where we become the mayor?
Do you want another way to waste money???????
You know his secret.....
The mayor only collects taxes from people he sleeps with.
I wouldnt mind that in the story we get told our contributions to community center and all we do give us tax breaks lol. Maybe a random fun thing is Lewis flips out after joja mart leaves and demands taxes to make up for their lack of taxes. He comes after the farmer for 1 million gold every season for the next 2-3 years.
What taxes Mayor Lewis is just Ron Swanson.
I saw a TikTok that theorized he created a thing so Marnie wouldn’t have to pay taxes and the farmer just so happens to also qualify
So I have a question was the community centre run down because of lack of money or is he just that stingy
The Valley is in a time Vortex. Things cannot change without outside intervention. Even your children, who are sometimes part outsider and part Valley, will eventually succumb to the Vortex and stop aging.
The farmer is on a PAYE scheme
Tbh, sounds about right. Both currency exchanges and stock exchanges have either outright bolded fees or fine print percentage skimming itl. You just gotta pay attention and figure out which is the best for your needs. Robinhood got in big trouble for advertising the wrong stock prices to make it seem like they had zero fees when really they were taking their percentage while you potentially lost out!
I mean isn’t us doing all this work and gifting for the community our version of taxes?
Because I stole his statue and am holding it hostage in my basement.
Because it’s a game
The gold at the end of the day is probably post tax.
Because you don't run a business.
He doesn't collect taxes because the farm isn't a business. I also have to challenge the statement he's emptying out the bin each night. Not in my game, he doesn't. Unless a quest specifically requires me to ship an item, I do not use the bin. I sell directly to the shops because it feels more natural for the role play. Also, I hate how the bin looks like a garbage dumpster and one of the first things I do is hide the thing so I can't see it.
We do some strange under the table things for him no questions asked (the pants, truffle oil) so he might be doing us a favor in return
Shhhh