Go travelling umi proquest dissertation Could it get any more stirring? The lucky tax collectors who attended a lunch of the Association of HM Inspectors of Taxes on 28 August 1952 probably thought so when Churchill, evidently having enjoyed some excellent browsing and sluicing, assured them that, “We are relying on you to extract more and more money from those who guilelessly elected us to office”. Lord! How they laughed – an inspiring sound for those of us who have never before heard a tax collector laughing fit to bust.