another tax & spending question.....

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As far as I understood spending & taxes so far is that they are somewhat unrelated.
i.e. the spending depends on how much you can spend, while the tax says how much you squeeze out from your population in monetary resources. That you have available to cover your costs.
i.e. 100% spend rate means that you have all your factories & research facilities running at max. Then the amount you spend should be INDEPENDENT of your tax revenue, well, your budget reflects the discrepancy but in first order, changing the tax slider should not affect the amount spend, right ?
At least that is how I understand the scaling of 100% spend rate.
But it does, why ? even when I run positive in budget changing the tax slider does affect the amount spend, even the spend rate is constantly at 100%, WHY ?

Thanks for the comments,

TT
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The spending amount is dependent on the TOTAL manufacturing and research capability, which includes the work force. The way I look at it is if you run the tax rate up so high that the work force gets angry (very low morale) and goes out on strike then your manufacturing and research capacities are reduced. This also affects the tax amount negatively because when there are fewer people working (due to the bad morale) then there is less income that can be taxed.