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Lyndon Johnson: “This reduction--more than double the amount that I recommended in January--is possible and desirable because Federal tax…”

On the recordMay 14, 1965
This reduction--more than double the amount that I recommended in January--is possible and desirable because Federal tax revenues, responding, we think, very strongly to our expanding economy, are now expected to be about $1 1/2 billion higher both in fiscal 1965 and fiscal 1966 than we estimated only last January.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks Upon Announcing Plans To Recommend a Reduction in Excise Taxes.

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