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Harry Truman: “The excess profits tax was a retroactive tax—December 1st or first of the year, if I remember correctly.”

On the recordJanuary 12, 1951
The excess profits tax was a retroactive tax—December 1st or first of the year, if I remember correctly.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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The President's News Conference on the Budget

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