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Ronald Reagan: We're not going back to that old road where government decides it knows better than us what should be done with our…

On the recordJune 21, 1983
We're not going back to that old road where government decides it knows better than us what should be done with our earnings and how we should live our lives.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks at the National Conference of the National Federation of Independent Business

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