Quote Originally Posted by phonicsmonkey View Post
A couple of people here have stated that taxes should be set as high as possible.

Could you please elaborate on why that is?

I had thought that the extra population growth from low taxes would provide a larger tax base over time which, combined with the savings from not having to support so many garrisons or build so many happiness buildings, would work out better in the long run than any short-term boost to income from high taxes.
Yeah look. That's pseudo-Miltonian economics. It doesn't work. You get more money out of higher taxes and lower population growth. Besides, population will almost invariably grow anyway and you never want population to be much higher than the minimum for your biggest settlement size. So a Huge City shouldn't have much more than 24000 people, etc. Otherwise you get unrest, sanitation issues. It's a pain in the ass. You get more money from farms, trade, and mines. Besides, a happy population can be taxed more!