Population growth vs Taxes?

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I generally crank my taxes up to %50 on turn 1 and leave them there, but my population always really sucks. Last night I noticed that if I turn my taxes off completely, my population starts to boom.

Since it seems the enemy planets grow to the size of a dime on the mini map pretty quick, I got to wondering how I should manage my tax rate to more efficiently populate my planets.

Any advice?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Population growth is heavily affected by morale. Higher taxes lower morale. Therefore, higher taxes lower population growth.

- Ash

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
So taxes don't -directly- affect population growth? I always have a few larger planets at 90-100 morale that are still fairly small. My experiment last night showed that my main planet grew a LOT in just a few turns.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I think Brad mentioned somewhere that if you have high taxes then less people are paying them, thereby less people are actually registered as citizens and vice versa. So if you lower taxes it doesnt mean people get more children, instead people are coming out of the shadows and becoming "real" citizens of your empire.

Following this logic I would assume that if taxes are very high then your population might drop. I have never seen that happen since I never put my taxes too high.

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