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On the recordDecember 13, 1962
The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrents to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system; and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York.

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