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This system, more than it's totally implausible, makes you LOWER your miliatry slider if you want a big army. I think that the Precentage system in HOI3 is much better in this case.
 
Or just raise lower class taxes so they stay poor canon fodder? Ive found having a large officer pool, while time consuming to maintain and assign can yield major dividends.
 
Well, if you're maxing the military slider your soldiers will get quite a bit of money from wages, while if you keep the poor slider comparatively low, they'll have tons of money to spend?

There might not be historical examples, but then again I doubt that the soldiers back then were paid very much, and was simultaniously taxed higher. If you change this in game, why wouldn't it change the outcome?
 
makes you LOWER your miliatry slider if you want a big army.
Only a miniscule number of soldiers promote to officers anyway, that promotion path doesn't really affect the size of your army. It's negligible compared to the amonunt of promotion and demotion of soldiers to other classes if you raise/lower military spending.