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Idk about how much Germany spent at home, I just know they didn't have the empire England and France did and didn't have to spend nearly the amount of money and effort like they did trying to keep control over 1/4th of the worlds land.
Yeah, that fits in with "not profiting that much off of empire building". And I think germany became an economic powerhouse through industrializing.

The problem in America wasn't getting the money, the problem was not giving them representation.
The british trying to pull a profit or stop their losses (can't remember which) from the colonies was the driving force I'm pretty sure. America couldn't be represented...their interests were too separate from the british interests. They would have had no power in parliament even with representatives.