Then again, I've seen the LF economy Capitalists build an absurd number of either Cement or Ammo factories, which then flood the market with 5x what they can actually sell, and ALL go bankrupt within a short time span. If your expenses are under control, and you've got profitable factories (not being subsidized to cover huge losses) then you shouldn't have a cash balance problem by mid-game, regardless of economic policy. Military salaries help promote pops into Soldiers, but if you've already got enough, raising the slider further won't make them fight any better.

If you have at least 2% Clerics because of a high Education slider, that gives you maximum research anything over 4% won't improve literacy, and is therefore wasted. If you promoted Bureaucrats early on, and kept their slider high, you should have WAAAAAAAY more than the 100% that you need, and the rest are merely drawing money out of the system for no further benefit. Then there's military, administrative, and educational salaries. MOST of it will go to the Capitalists who own the factories (and taxing those Capitalists should therefore give you a massive influx of cash), and a small portion will be divided up among the workers, who in turn will spend it on consumer goods, also hopefully from your own factories. Sorry if this is rambling or your annoyed at seeing all my posts asking for help about the economy, but I'm just so frustrated I just can't see what is so good about low tariff and taxes LF economies.Д¬lick to expand.If those goods are coming from your own factories, then your pops are at least getting a share of it. I originally thought it was just growing pains and that eventually my economy would come out of the crapper and rise like a phoenix, but all it did was burn all my saving (13 million) and continue a downward spiral. People say that its fine that you aren't making as much money because it goes to pops, but how is that supposed to comfort me when my treasury is flat-lining even when i have land maintenance set to 5%? Who cares if the pops are getting richer? I have plenty of raw resources and a huge economy scoring over 1000. Think the only resources that I don't produce in significant amounts are silk and opium. In fact, there is precious little I don't produce locally I produce the most, iron, coal, sulfur, wheat, fruit, etc, etc. This despite me being able to produce all the military goods I need locally. I've never been able to fund a substantial army and navy without significant tariffs and taxes as it requires an ass-ton to buy up the material in the national stockpile. I've ask many, many questions in the past regarding the economy and why people seem to think Laissez Faire, no tarrifs and low taxes are so good.

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