Forum:Taxes
I turned my basement upside down last night trying to find the box full of Little Black Books that've been in storage *somewhere* for the past 20-odd years.
Bupkes.
And I really needed to find Trillion Credit Squadron.
So I'll throw out what I'm trying to accomplish, and then my question.
Goal: To start putting together *rough* orders of battle for the Caledonian fleet, as well as some of the neighboring states (Duncinae, the Khan Worlds, Douglass, etc)
Issue: When I calculate the naval budget for the Principality overall, I get an absolutely insane amount of money; 15.5 Trillion credits. I'm assuming that's an annual figure, and that the Principality will therefore have (after deducting a rough 30% for things like payroll, maintenance, R&D, expendibles and so forth) 10 TCr/year, or 100 TCr in ships floating about. Given that over the course of ten years you can spend about half on new construction and half on maintaining existing construction (assuming a ten year service life), that adds up to a LOT of ships. Thousands and thousands.
Question 1: Do I have the math basically correct?
Question 2: If someone has time to explain it, how - roughly - does one divide tax revenues among tech levels. For example - in the Principality of Caledonia, there are 31 billion citizens - but only 1.7B live on TL12 worlds, 8B on TL11, and well over 20B (and their immense revenues) live on TL9 systems. It seems unlikely that all of that money would go into building a uniformly TL12 fleet. While I realize this is probably explained in TCS, I can't find a copy at hand at the moment - so could someone sum up how one accounts for this in a nutshell?
Thanks!