- [<] Status Log - created:: 2022-04-25 - status-updated:: 2022-04-25 - current-status:: #articleseed - [S] Marketing - purpose:: afterword for [[2022-06-29 Stringent (MF)]] The goal is to have a ~700 word article about obscure and interesting tax collection situations in history, preferably ones that can riff off of that story and be related. The tone should be one of casual wonder, informal but assume the audience is intelligent and curious. Here are some references to get started: - http://newsletter.eleanorkonik.com/taxes (this is my website) - https://eidolon.pub/we-condone-it-by-our-silence-bea76fb59b21 (specifically Athenian taxes — import taxes vs. local taxes vs. extracted taxes) - http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/tax-2013-1013-anglo-saxon-state - [[a leader can be too effective at collecting taxes]] - [[the medieval English taxation system was unusually efficient]] - [[medieval England had merit-based advancement opportunities]] - https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/medieval-urban-agriculture/ * [[most Medieval taxpayers owned land]] ![[too much taxation leads to starvation]] ![[Mesoamerican governments distributed taxed food in times of famine]] ![[collecting taxes is cheaper than controlling labor forces]]