[Dragaera] Tax (and other) revenue by house

[Jon Lincicum]

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> From: "Howard Brazee" <howard at brazee.net>
> To: dragaera at lists.dragaera.info
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 12:45:45 PM
> Subject: [Dragaera] Tax (and other) revenue by house
> Different houses have different approaches to commerce and government
> responsibilities. Even the least commercially oriented houses have
> monetary needs when they are in power, and want tax revenues from the
> more commercial houses' cities. I can see "investments" changing
> between military technology to ship technology to pure research etc.
> 
> Which would be the wealthier regimes? The poorer? Which would be best
> for long term development?


I would imagine the Vallista would be the House with the best long-term developments for the Empire. It seems like they would be the most interested in investing in fundamental infrastructure. That likely puts a lot of money into the hands of both skilled and unskilled laborers working on these projects, which should benefit the entire economy of the Empire in the process. 

Of course, that likely just encourages the Vallista to pursue ever more ambitious and expensive projects, putting a financial strain on the tax-paying gentry, and generally making the Vallista ruler progressively less and less popular with the other Great Houses. (Except maybe the Teckla and Jhereg.)

I believe there was a Paarfi bit near the beginning of /TPG/ where he expounded on this very phenomenon. 

Majikjon