He has forced through an impressive tax-cutting package and is now, albeit with his usual habit of weaving to left and right, braving up to the job of overhauling the country's archaic pension system.
Employment is growing at 194,000 jobs per month, impressive given the tax rises and spending cuts that have hit the economy.
During World War I this came to be known as "the conscription of wealth," a turn of phrase arguably as impressive as "death tax," in contemporary debates.
The first is government revenue.Over the past five years, even as the economy has grown (in 2002 by an impressive 4.6%) the tax take has fallen from 17% of GDP to barely 12%.
That's even more impressive in Australia, where tax is included and tips are not expected.
Described by the estate agent as "a small impressive private island" with "tax free status", Brecqhou was to be the twins' mid-Channel base, an alternative to their homes in Monaco.
"The scale of Osborne's ambition is impressive: to secure £7.2bn tax for a trifling £750m downpayment is the sort of return on investment many business people can only dream of," he said.
At the highest level, they're incredibly impressive athletic feats that tax the human body to its utmost limits, but so what?
While Romney is chock full of impressive boasts – 12m more jobs, tax cuts for all, a bigger military and a lower deficit – the Obama effort is muted.
But it is hardly an impressive advert for the bedroom tax as an effective scourge of overcrowding, especially if you are one of the 1,000-plus 1,000-plusd hovercrowdedn Camden's social householdsiting list.
