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Now that I think about it. With the tax taking out gold in the system and "increasing the value"... wouldn't that just lock the whole system up?

This is a train of though I ran into earlier... The only way not to lock up this system is to lower prices. But what if people don't? For example I am more apt to sell my items when I see the prices go up. But after the decrease in gold in the economy... prices drop. I have less of an incentive to use gold and exchange more for items. It is harder getting a deal with items you would like to have compared to a straight gold transaction. (reason is because of direct and indirect exchange) So this in turn causes the sytsem to slow down or can lead to the "locking" items into place.

Could you imagine if items were locked? "What you have now is what you get, you can trade for less but for no more." It would be like having no trade at all. But this is just an extreme hypothetical sytuation.
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That's a real good view on it all.