Laffer curve D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford. While he served as Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department his wealth peaked at around US$300–US$400 million. Personal income-tax receipts rose from US$719 million in 1921 to over US$1 billion in 1929, an average increase of 4.2% per year over an 8-year period, which supporters attribute to the rate cut. David Hume also expressed similar arguments in his essay "Of Taxes" in 1756, as did fellow Scottish economist Adam Smith, twenty years later. The Democratic party made a similar argument in the 1880s when high revenue from import tariffs raised during the Civil War (1861–1865)
According to Spike Milligan there are running gags about Dr. Frankenstein's sea voyages during which his ship sinks, the monster disappearing mysteriously because he runs at speeds of 100 mph, and notes by an editor (Milligan) making sarcastic remarks about events in the novel. "The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan" is a spoof of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The plot is almost the same as the original, the main differences being that the Spike Milligan version is considerably shorter, and there is more humorous content. Written from the viewpoint of Dr. Watson (who is accompanied