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Ronald Reagan: “I'm determined to set this government on a course of fiscal sanity, eventually balancing the budget, but not on the back…”

On the recordAugust 10, 1982
I'm determined to set this government on a course of fiscal sanity, eventually balancing the budget, but not on the back of the American taxpayer.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks at a Fund-raising Luncheon in Billings, Montana, for United States Senate Candidate Larry Williams

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