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Jimmy Carter: Inflation is the cruelest and most regressive of all taxes, and that's a tax that I'm determined to cut this year, in…

On the recordMarch 27, 1980
Inflation is the cruelest and most regressive of all taxes, and that's a tax that I'm determined to cut this year, in 1980.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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National Conference of State Legislatures Remarks at the Advisory Conference

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