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FDR: I don't want to be put in a position of having to say that Community A is sufficiently solvent to increase its taxes.

On the recordJune 14, 1937
I don't want to be put in a position of having to say that Community A is sufficiently solvent to increase its taxes.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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