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Harry Truman: “Adequate taxes are necessary to preserve confidence in the integrity of the Government's finances, to distribute the…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 1951
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.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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

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