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You Must Read This; Regarding Spending
Topic Started: Sep 7 2006, 10:54 AM (448 Views)
Metternich
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Clearly, your budgets are by and large substantial, and clearly, your military cannot absorb the majority of most of the budgets out there - and it would be highly unrealistic if it was the sole source of expenditure. Therefore, you must spend at least the bulk of the surplus money on something else. If you do not, you will incur punishments such as dissent from groups with in your country, leading eventually to large revolts, and problems like deflation of currency and market fluctuation (hoarding money decreases money supply to meet demand to spend in market place, causing, for example, the 1929 Wall Street Crash.)

These things include:

Social Spending:
-Welfare - Workhouses - Later 19th Century - Pensions
-Public Sanitation

Reform:
-Tax Reform (Including Lowering Taxes Altogether to decrease your income, which can be acheived by simply creditting the income back to the people in your budget.)
-Land Reform

Trade:
-Subsidising Native Products
-Paying for Crown Companies

Court:
-Pensions for Retiring Aristocratic Civil Servants (Note, this was a large expenditure in most European Monarchies, treat your ministers well.)
-Events, parties, diplomatic meetings (piss ups).

Beautification:
-Royal Palaces and Gardens, statues, new government buildings, etc. The Palace of Versailles was estimated to have cost from 6-25% of France's budget for years upon years.

Security and Law and Order:
-Bribes for Sneaks and Agents
-Constabularies
-Propaganda from State Owned Newspapers

Armed Forces:
-Fortifications
-Improving Training Facilities
-Upgrading Men Already in Existence

Infrastructure:
-Roads
-Canals
-Bridges
-Railways
-Postal Services (by land and sea)

Investment:
-Gifts to Foreign Governments
-Direct Investment in large projects

Colonies:
-Security
-Bribes
-Infrastructure
-Investment
-Military Expeditions
-Exploration
-Fortification

In short, you must -spend- some to most of your money, and a failure to do so will incur consequences. If you wish, you can assign money generally to departments to avoid micromanagement (i.e. a budget for the 'Home Office' or 'Ministry of the Interior'.)
Whether a Nation Today be Mighty and Rich depends not on the Abundance or Security of its Power or Riches, but Principally on Whether its Neighbours Possess More or Less of it. - Philip Von Hornigk, German Mercantillist, c. 1690
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