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This file from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, digitized by the Internet Archive, holds Congressman Gerald R. Ford's Fifth District weekly radio scripts from January to June 1966, plus several National Republican Congressional Committee scripts. They deal with President Johnson's budget, inflation, four-year House terms, electoral college reform, foreign aid, the Vietnam War, rent subsidies and Memorial Day. The extracted text does not discuss UFOs.
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE • 312 CONGRESSIONAL HOTEL • WASHINGTON 3 , D. C. • LINCOLN 4 -3010 Script No. 13 April It, 1966 CAI"'NONS OR CAVIAR This is Congressman reporting to you from Washington. President Johnson hinted rather strongly the other day that he might have to ask Con- gress for a tax increase to curb rising prices. I want to go on record just as strongly that I am against a tQX boost at this time becauo;e I do not believe that's the answer to the inflation that is plaguing America's housewives and making a mockery out of family budgets. I would also like to say that I was amused by the President's suggestion that house- wives buy only the moderately-priced cuts of meat and so force prices down. If the President is able to find some moderately-priced cuts, I wish he would let me know. The great maiority of Americans, I am proud to note, ere hard-headed, down-to- earth people. They face up to facts. They don't order sirloin steaks when their pocketbook says hamburger. In short, they don 1t like to live beyond their incomes. If the present Administration really wants to curb rising prices, it might well follow the exanple that is being set by the mothers and wives of America. It might well cut out the luxury items in the national budget and settle for lesser-priced Federal fare. That is the answei· to checking the soaring rate of Inflation. So far this year, the taxpayers• burden has already been increased by higher Social Security taxes, by higher excise taxes, by advanced withholding and by general tax rises by Sta~9 and local governments. All these increases combined are reliably estimated to run about 8 to 10 billion dollars. On top of this, more Federal taxes? I'm against tt--mafnly because I am not at all convinced that the higher taxes will achieve the desired end. They will not bring down the prices of meats and vegetables, of clothes, shoes and services, for example. I recently read that a newly-installed computer in the Internal Revenue Servf~ dti- covered w!,at IRS called the "astonishing 11 fact that Americans as a whole figured out theif taxes carefully1 honestly and accurately • I think this care and honerty on the part of the taxpay~ (more)
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