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Calvin Coolidge: It will be very easy to measure the strength of the attachment to reduced taxation by the power with which increased…

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It will be very easy to measure the strength of the attachment to reduced taxation by the power with which increased appropriations are resisted.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge suggests that the commitment to tax reduction can be measured by resistance to increased spending.

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