### id242084408 a leader can be too effective at collecting taxes > Unlike David Cameron, who faces popular criticism for his administration’s failure to gather taxes effectively, a thousand years ago the king had the opposite problem: he was far too effective at collecting taxes - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fjwy1er3rba673na0pdes5a4) - [[Taxing Times in 2013 and 1013 The Anglo-Saxon State We're In by James Pennock#id242084408 a leader can be too effective at collecting taxes|View in Vault]] - [I] I find the idea of a _too effective_ leader interesting. Can riff off the idea for [[2022-06-29 Stringent (MF)]] as a #articleseed/afterword for the [[Smuggling Article]].