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Ronald Reagan: “High tax rates discourage work, risk-taking, initiative, and imagination.”

On the recordMarch 12, 1985
High tax rates discourage work, risk-taking, initiative, and imagination.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks at a White House Meeting With Members of the American Business Conference

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