For it is increasingly clear--to those in Government, business, and labor who are responsible for our economy's success--that our obsolete tax system exerts too heavy a drag on private purchasing power, profits, and employment.
Kennedy critiques the outdated tax system for hindering economic progress.
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We shall be judged more by what we do at home than by what we preach abroad.
The choices we make, for good or ill, may well shape the state of the Union for generations yet to come.
I shall neither shift the burden of executive decisions to the Congress, nor avoid responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.