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On the recordJune 15, 1947
A time of high employment and high prices, wages, and profits, such as the present, calls for a surplus in Government revenue over expenditures and the application of all or much of this surplus to the reduction of the public debt.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Veto of Bill To Reduce Income Taxes.

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