In Popular Culture
During the Republican presidential primaries of 2012, candidate Herman Cain's 9-9-9 taxation proposal was widely attributed to a similar tax structure presented in SimCity 4; the CNBC cable networks relayed the story of the linkage of the SimCity ideal parameters as a possible origin of the taxation proposal (the story itself may have originated in the technical press). However, SimCity 4's taxation schemes do not fully reflect real world taxation systems; the game focuses on city-building and local government and subsequently only concerns taxation at local level, in this case property tax (hence the different level levied between residential, commercial and industrial areas).
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