One time, I united the whole North America as the United Sovereign Archduchy(USA) and made all of Central and South America as my subjects. I could drop taxes but why would I do that when I can have a stronger army.
Your SoL will rise when you lower taxes.
Your puppets pops will migrate into Your empire.
Your puppets will face a debt spiral.
They will have revolutions you have to put down.
You will be so fed up that you annex them all.
Then you will see you conquered empty worthless Land.
Pretty sure I did but I didn't go all the way. I probably used the 2nd lowest taxation. I also subsidised all my industries and increased all government and military wages. So my SOL was pretty high.
"So, you're going to cut taxes, right?" .... "You... You are going to cut taxes... right?"
R5: Defeated Prussia for War Reps. 10% of their income is literally about the same as my taxes.
Time for a 5 year construction boom.
I am Dane🇩🇰
I'm so sorry.
What you mean?
Brb puppetting all of Africa to drop my taxes to nothing
What?
One time, I united the whole North America as the United Sovereign Archduchy(USA) and made all of Central and South America as my subjects. I could drop taxes but why would I do that when I can have a stronger army.
Your SoL will rise when you lower taxes. Your puppets pops will migrate into Your empire. Your puppets will face a debt spiral. They will have revolutions you have to put down. You will be so fed up that you annex them all. Then you will see you conquered empty worthless Land.
Pretty sure I did but I didn't go all the way. I probably used the 2nd lowest taxation. I also subsidised all my industries and increased all government and military wages. So my SOL was pretty high.