User blog comment:Testxyz/10/@comment-867628-20140419023041/@comment-75.36.136.219-20140419055118

No YOU and the Developers are applying  the logic and setting of the 21st century to something that allegedly is supposed to represent 1893 .. 1912.

Read your history. There was negligable federal income tax in those years. Taxes were basicly raised via tarrifs and luxury taxes.

The federal government was a tiny tiny fraction of what it is now. Other significant projects like the Panama Canal were ALREADY monopolizing available monies.

So unless you are using magic to create the money, it will have to come from somewhere.

Industrialists and Bankers back then were who you turned to, and they didnt do it for free.

I wont even go into the virtual certainty that a charlatan like Comstock would never be trusted and the second he looked like he was going to try to steal these investor's Floating City', he would have 'accidentally' walked off a ledge and plummeted to his death.

BTW, I mentioned NOTHING about religion here, but thats a whole seperate issue of absurdity and BS from the developers making believe Columbia actually resembled 'American Religion' of that period or any other.