Harry Truman actually said...

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.

Context

Veto of Bill To Reduce Income Taxes.

06/15/1947

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