Remarks to Representatives of the Organization of American States
11/08/1987
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Maybe it has to do with our early history as a nation of farmers, but when we Americans see a problem, we solve it.
We can't just shove everything aside and say only the budget and the tax plan are all we're talking about.
Our tax code has become in a fundamental sense un-American, and I mean that as a serious, moral, and economic assertion.
I think that government itself created the bulk of the farm problems with programs that were well-intentioned.