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Herbert Hoover: No matter how devised, an increase in taxes in the end falls upon the workers and farmers, or alternatively deprives…

On the recordDecember 8, 1930
No matter how devised, an increase in taxes in the end falls upon the workers and farmers, or alternatively deprives industry of that much ability to give employment and defeats the very purpose of these schemes.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Statement on Proposed Increases in Federal Expenditures for Employment and Relief.

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