Ronald Reagan: “Why is it inflationary for you to keep and spend more of your own…”

On the recordJune 24, 1981

Why is it inflationary for you to keep and spend more of your own money and it isn't inflationary if government takes it and spends it the way it wants to?

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Ronald Reagan

Republican · California

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Remarks in Los Angeles at the Luncheon of the Central City and California Taxpayers' Associations

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Ronald Reagan: “Why is it inflationary for you to keep and spend more of your own money and it isn't inflationary if government takes it…”

Editor's note · Context