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On the recordOctober 11, 1976
America's future requires traditional commonsense, not radical experimentation at personal expense.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at Yeshiva of Flatbush High School in Brooklyn, New York

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Jun 5, 2003

These people making less than $25,000 a year get up and go to work just like you and I do every single day. They pay a payroll tax which is the highest tax paid by 82 percent of Americans. So the other side of the aisle can label us not…

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May 22, 2003

we have heard a lot of talk, and my colleagues on my side of the aisle have suggested that we are traveling down a course we traveled before from 2 years ago when we were promised that a tax bill would create millions of new jobs and new…

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So we bear some of the responsibility, but some on the other side of the aisle also bear some of the responsibility.

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what is the problem then if my colleagues believe in removing all these taxes, which I think there is a lot of merit to, I am a big tax cutter like the gentleman is? I support those ideas. How is that consistent with the taking 3 million…

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