27th January 2018 - Link Blog
How did the Roman Republic determine its budget? Fascinating answer on the AskHistorians subreddit about how taxation worked in the Roman Empire. Since the republic was almost permanently at war, and was very good at it, no taxes were levied on Roman citizens in Italy from 167 B.C. onwards.
Recent articles
- We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything - 3rd October 2026
- OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog - 29th September 2026
- 2026 in LLMs (so far) - 27th September 2026