taxes, cash reserves, state bonds

[Rosey Palmer]

Playing with latest patch, three questions:

1. Is there any reason, other than the happiness of your citizens, not to tax everyone at 49.22%? With reforms implemented my people seem happy and don't revolt.

2. I don't understand cash reserves of my POPs, even at 32% tax a lot of them don't get cash reserves. What good are cash reserves, my people seem to get along fine without them?

3. And finally, why can't I get income from state bonds? Is this just random? Sometimes I pull in 1 or 2 pesos per day, but most of the time I am stuck at zero.

Muchas gracias for any info.

 

[Heretic]

1)
higher than 33% tax for middle & rish may casue them to start leacing your country

2)
not 100% sure about cash reserves myself. I seem to see than when my economy is motoring along ok, and making a profit, cash reserves do gradually accumulate.
I think that reserves are what is left over from income after the POPs have tried to meet their needs from the world market.

3)
yeah, only if your pops have a reasonable level of cash will they start to invest in bonds, so don't worry about them

N.b.
All answers based on my understanding on the game & may be all wrong

Heretic

 

[unmerged(25053)]

1. High taxes are ok for a while, but after a long time your pop's will change into socialist and reactionary. After about 60 years of such high taxes, I usually lower it ... only for a little while so that I don't have too many weirdo pops. Other than that, reforms are important once you are not a Monarchy. btw, I tax at 47.66 to 47.7 and not above.

2. Cash reserves only happen to the pop's that are in very lucrative industries. Chances are, they can't get all that they want so most of the time they do not have cash reserves. Exception: With a decent unemployment reform those without work will have cash reserves. (If not, then they will migrate within your country to find work and if that fails they will leave).

3. State bonds sometimes happen when your pops have good times. If you are in a war, bonds tend to disappear. Also, tariffs kill bonds since pops need more money for needs. Only during times when you are doing extremely well in econ will you see bonds. I get them often but then there is a war and so forth. I do not rely on them and no longer check heavily to see if they are there. When they occur, I say 'neat' and just keep going.

 

[OriginalRafiki]

2. Cash reserves only happen to the pop's that are in very lucrative industries.

Nope; POPs' income doesn't depend on where they work, per Crimson King's calculations.

Rafiki

 

[Darkrenown]

Unemployment reforms don't give anyone cash either.

2) Cash reserves only build up when pops are meeting all their everyday needs. If pops have cash not not all their good, they spend it.

3) pops need to be getting 100% luxuary goods and have £100 to buy bonds.

 

[unmerged(28537)]

sounds like another on vicky's nottorisous unim[plemented features like tariffs and gas attacks

 

[Jerzy_I]

1) If you have high tariffs and a good economy you can lower taxes..your people buy more stuff...you make more in tarriffs then you did in taxes

2) Cash reserves will only build till pops have enough to buy their needs....if all needs are met only then will their cash reserves build up....having cash reserves doesn't matter...pops buying their needs effects militancy except.....

3) If all needs are met pops will buy bonds after their cash reserves hit $100


hope that helps

 

[Henry]

3) If all needs are met pops will buy bonds after their cash reserves hit $100

Will POPs that need luxuries that aren't available early in the game (like automobiles/aeroplanes/telephones) still purchase bonds?

 

[Memnon]

Will POPs that need luxuries that aren't available early in the game (like automobiles/aeroplanes/telephones) still purchase bonds?

Yes; they'll only buy the things that have actually been invented. There's no penalty for not being able to supply aeroplanes in the 1840s.