New Player with Economy/Build Order Questions!

[Daveybaby]

I'm starting to come to this conclusion myself. This is not RTW or M2TW, the growth from lowering taxes just doesnt seem to make enough difference throughout the course of the game to justify the (often crippling) immediate income hit. It's especially difficult to justify since it's a clan wide tax setting in S2, and even if you did keep taxes low right from the beginning (when it might make a difference over time) that's only going to benefit the provinces you have at the beginning - not any provinces you take 20, 50 or 100 turns down the line.