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Ronald Reagan: “The deficit can and will be brought down, but not by raising taxes.”

On the recordMarch 22, 1985
The deficit can and will be brought down, but not by raising taxes.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Radio Address to the Nation on the Federal Budget and Tax Reform

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