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On the recordMarch 30, 1931
I have canvassed the financial situation in the Government exhaustively with our different departments, and I can state that there will be no increases in taxes if the next Congress imposes no increases on the budget or the expenditure proposals which the administration will present.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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