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Ronald Reagan: If you had to choose between shrinking the size of government or shrinking the size of your paycheck, which would it be?

On the recordMarch 2, 1984
If you had to choose between shrinking the size of government or shrinking the size of your paycheck, which would it be?
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Radio Address to the Nation on Taxes and on the Budget Deficit

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