How did the Shire collect its taxes?
How did the Shire collect its taxes?
Sebastian Sanchez
Adam Perez
The Shire was a collectivist agrarian utopia, there were no taxes.
Cooper Morales
They didn't have taxes, because they didn't have a government, it was a left-libertarian voluntaryist society.
Daniel Smith
What did they use for money?
Who made the money?
Jordan Evans
Shire didn't have taxes.
It was an ethnically homogeneous socialist ethnostate with no real central governing power. The Mayor of the Shire was mostly a representative role for officiating festivals. Other than that, everybody simply gave what they could to their community.
Now, I know what you're thinking
>But user, that sounds suspiciously close to communism
I know, but keep in mind since there are no niggers in the shire they can afford to govern themselves this way.
Julian Nguyen
They used money to trade with the Men outside the Shire, but they were mostly self-dependent. In the books both the Sackvilles and especially Bilbo after receiving all these gifts from the Dwarves were rich, but their wealth didn't translate into land ownership.
Also I really need to get laid.
Jeremiah Garcia
Shire didn't have slaves? Not even "talking cattle"?
Bentley Butler
There were may hobbits who went and lived with the Men in the Breelands, but the Shire was off limits because it was protected by the dunedain Rangers, the Shire hobbits had a luxury that the rest of Middle-Earth did not have, in fact most of Middle-Earth west of Rohan and Gondor was extremely de-populated and there were no kingdoms or nations in it after the fall of Arnor. This was done by Tolkien for mostly plot reasons, and this is why his setting isn't really pseudo-medieval , but resembles more of an imaginary "fairy-tale" land. The fat man simply doesn't get that.
Jaxson Richardson
It was an erisian syndicalist body with a wisdom-based consul-hierarchy.
Brody Myers
Not really, there was still a kind of 'nobility', often associated with, but not determined by, wealth, and so there was a sort of serfdom.
e.g: Frodo being 'fairer' than most Hobbits, and so Sam referred to him as 'Master', not just because he was in his employ.
Wait, Frodo employed Sam? What did he pay him with?