Calvin Coolidge: “Under the present circumstances it would be far better to leave the…”

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Under the present circumstances it would be far better to leave the rates as they are than to enact a bill carrying the peril of a deficit.

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Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge suggests that maintaining current tax rates is preferable to risking a budget deficit.

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