blame vs tax

blame

verb
  • To censure (someone or something); to criticize. 

  • To assert the cause of some bad event. 

  • To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative). 

noun
  • Culpability for something negative or undesirable. 

  • A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code. 

  • Censure. 

  • Responsibility for something meriting censure. 

tax

verb
  • To accuse. 

  • To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). 

  • To impose and collect a tax on (something). 

  • To make excessive demands on. 

  • To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items. 

noun
  • A burdensome demand. 

  • A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. 

  • Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services. 

How often have the words blame and tax occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )