Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I can not do this for the reason that I do not believe such subsidies will be effective in controlling inflation unless they are accompanied here, as they are in England, by current tax and savings programs that drain of excess buying power, and by tight control and management of the food supply.

06/27/1943

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