General Discussion
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(17,621 posts)K & R, too.
sikorsky
(96 posts)I played it as a kid
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,011 posts)A Get of Jail Free card.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)It is 10% or $200.....although I don't remember if the $200 is the minimum or maximum, but that really doesn't matter. If it is the minimum, the poor are really getting screwed. If it is the maximum, the poor are really getting screwed.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)for "Passing GO", it's kind of a 100% tax ....in a way
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)who don't own all the property and hotels and only live on wages.....now those people, they aren't paying enough tax!!!
Where have I heard that before??? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)to bail out their kids after yet another DUI arrest.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)looked it up in Wikipedia.
History
Further information: History of the board game Monopoly
The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1904,[2] when an American woman named Elizabeth (Lizzie) J. Magie Phillips created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of Henry George (it was intended to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies). Her game, The Landlord's Game, was commercially published in 1924.[3]
In 1941, the British Secret Service had John Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of the game outside the U.S., create a special edition for World War II prisoners of war held by the Nazis.[4] Hidden inside these games were maps, compasses, real money, and other objects useful for escaping. They were distributed to prisoners by secret service-created fake charity groups.[5]
Because of the lengthy court process and appeals, the legal status of Parker Brothers' trademarks on the game was not settled until the late 1970s. Ralph Anspach won a lawsuit over his game Anti-Monopoly on appeals in 1979, as the 9th District Court determined that the trademark Monopoly was generic, and therefore unenforceable.[6]
WillyT
(72,631 posts)evilhime
(326 posts)mopinko
(69,806 posts)nightscanner59
(802 posts)Timely observance, however, since the tax free repug's nearly drove us into the greatest depression ever. The game, according to hasbro.com, was invented in 1934 by an unemployed american
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Not just Wall Street!