Harry Truman actually said...

Adequate taxes are necessary to preserve confidence in the integrity of the Government's finances, to distribute the heavy defense costs fairly among our people, and to restrain inflationary pressures.

Context

Letter to the President of the Senate on the Need for Additional Tax Revenue.

09/19/1951

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