Some help for economy please

[Cavalry]

Wait. Tariffs are free money? Whose citizenry pays the tariff cost? I had thought that high tariffs would bankrupt my citizenry and that a bankrupt citizenry would lead to grossly retarded economic development.

well you also get free money from tax. You can get some 150% money you people pay after some commercial tech!

Tariff will make your people more conscious so they will demand democracy sooner or later! In democracy they will vote for free trade!

 

[Raph]

well you also get free money from tax. You can get some 150% money you people pay after some commercial tech!

Tariff will make your people more conscious so they will demand democracy sooner or later! In democracy they will vote for free trade!

Sure, but the difference is that taxes will actually affect the economy of your POPs - while tariffs won't.

 

[unmerged(18031)]

I'm still confused. When your POP buys one of its desired goods off the WM, does it...

1. Always pay the tariff surcharge out of its pocket, on top of the price of the good? (Everything is exported to the great World Market Warehouse, then re-imported.)

2. Only pay the tariff surcharge if it did not get to acquire the good in its "first crack" chance to acquire domestically produced goods?

3. Pay only the cost of the good? (The tariff revenue appears out of "thin air".)

 

[unmerged(28026)]

Coherent single explanation

Tariffs work as follows:

1) A POP does not pay the tariff surcharge at all, so far as I can tell. Goods remain at the same price for POPs regardless of your tariff rate.

2) You only get tariff money on goods that POPs actually buy. The income is based on the price of the good bought. Thus, poor POPs who are being taxed will only buy grain and wool, netting you little or nothing in the way of tariff income.

3) Further, you do NOT get tariff income on a purchase if a POP buys a good you have produced domestically -- hence, producing something cheap like grain doesn't hurt you much and indeed makes sure your POPs get some of their subsistence goods, but glass and especially clothes and liquor cut your tariff income DRASTICALLY.

4) Conservative and protectionist POPs are relatively unbothered by tariffs, but clerks, craftsmen, socialists, and liberals all have very significant consciouness increases when high tariffs are in place.

So...taxes bad, tariffs good, until you industrialize.

-Adso

 

[TheFlemishDuck]

I'm still confused. When your POP buys one of its desired goods off the WM, does it...

3. Pay only the cost of the good ,The tariff revenue appears out of "thin air" indeed.

 

[unmerged(18031)]

That's ... a little jaw-dropping.

No wonder all the FAQs suggest turning tariffs up to 100% at the start of the game!

 

[OriginalRafiki]

Indeed

Rafiki

 

[Raph]

That's ... a little jaw-dropping.

No wonder all the FAQs suggest turning tariffs up to 100% at the start of the game!

Welcome into the world of revelations!

 

[Rensslaer]

Note that if you have a big army you can also use it for corruption fighting by spreading them over province's with corruption.Army's will make corruption building's go away much faster ,so you can set youre crime fighting to like 30% and youll army's will be able to minimilize the corruption still

This is good to know.

How much does corruption affect my industrial score, if any? Or my income?

Thanks

Rensslaer