Quote Originally Posted by Viking
lastly there is the tax rate, which I usually have set as high as possible. If you have a city that was created huge by always having low/normal tax rates, you might suffer problems with popularity as when spies enter or if you get excommunicated or similar since you cannot lower the tax rate much. I don't know if it is more profitable either.
well, the point about setting tax rate low in early game is that you get to huge city as quickly as possible, THEN you bump up the tax rate for that city. it also raises the chivalry of the governer (which also helps the population boom).