Problems with Planetary Economies!

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Okay, this has probably been al hashed out and settled/explained to death earlier but since I only started playing last week, I would like to know!

How do you calculate the planetary economy for maintenance?

I am just a little confused why my planet has an income of 104BC and the detail window says I have a maintenance cost of 64BC but the planet is chewing up a total of 167BC every month in maintenance.

What am I not seeing here?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The maintenance cost of 64BC is to pay for your buildings to just be there, not being used. Now, when you set your spending slider in the Domestic Policy screen to spend money on social and military, those buildings are then actually used.

Think of a car factory that is not producing anything. You still have costs to have that factory there "ready to build" cars on a moments notice. Now you decide to build some cars. You now incur many more expenses to actually be building cars. In your case, you are spending 103BC to build the cars and 64BC just to have the factory there in a "ready to build" condition.

Does that make sense?