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Sai & Co. This is Sai & Co. from WAKU Challenge Lab.

Well, today I'm going to talk about "social loss caused by hometown tax", but first of all, if you think this story was "good", please share it😁

Now for the main topic.

Well everyone.

Do you do hometown tax?

I thought it was about time to give it a try, so I asked people who were actually doing it and did some research on my own.

Then I came to a somewhat surprising conclusion, so I'm going to talk about it today.

So let's talk about the benefits first.

The advantage is that you can actually get what you want for 2000 yen.

This is the best.

Now, as for the disadvantages, it turns out that it is actually more interesting when you think about the disadvantages.

The key to unlocking it is money.

If you look at the flow of money that moves when this hometown tax is carried out, isn't it a loss in the end? That's the conclusion.
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So, let me start by telling you the conclusion. That's what it means.​

First of all, let's look at the flow of money when the hometown tax donation was carried out.

We send money from our wallets to a certain town.

In return, the town that received it will send you a thank-you gift.

In the end, the difference between the money we sent and the price of the goods we sent as a thank you and other miscellaneous expenses was added to the income of the town.

In this way, the towns that are entering more and more will be enriched, but what about the towns that are not entering?

A portion of the tax that should have gone in originally flowed out to other towns, and the town's income decreased.

If that happens, of course the infrastructure will be neglected.

In other words, the function of the town hall deteriorates, and many areas such as transportation, education, welfare, and child-rearing support become inadequate.

I think there is only such a future.

Of course, in order to prevent this from happening, various local governments are making full use of various return gifts, but there was a local government that issued Amazon gift certificates for a while, which became a hot topic.

Originally, I would like to use a local specialty as a return gift, but money is always involved, so I desperately think of a return gift in order to receive more donations.

No matter what you do, you're more interested in necessities and luxuries than specialty products.

Because you can get it for 2000 yen.

I can see why.

Municipalities with a lot of resources have a system that benefits them, but municipalities with few resources can't get out of the negative loop, and there is no choice but to decline.

Rather, I feel like a system that encourages its decline.

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