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This Gerald R. Ford Library folder of Ford Congressional Papers holds material from Ford's broadcasts in 1965 and 1966. It contains correspondence with WJR station manager James H. Quello and drafts of Ford's June 1965 "Your Government" radio report on congressional imbalance, Vietnam and Cuba, along with budget remarks. It also includes Ford's March 25, 1966 on-air statement calling for a congressional investigation of UFO sightings near Ann Arbor, Michigan, a Great Society documentary script and a Meet the Press transcript with Indira Gandhi.
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ANNOUNCER: In a world of uncertainties, taxes are something that will always be with us. But our Congressman, Jerry Ford, knows that they do not have to go up. Jerry... MR. FORD: Six years of deficit spending. That's what you've had under two Democratic Administrations. They've gone in the hole every year for six years. And the accumulated deficits add up to over $30 billion. Hasn't it ever struck you as strange... all the money the Federal Government takes from you in taxes, and they still can't balance the books. And if the Democrats can't balance the budget in times such as these, when will they do it? This year the Federal Government will collect $311 from every man, woman and child in the country. Well, the kids won't pay that, of course. You'll pay it for them. Did you know that in just the past 10 years the income tax load per family in this country has jumped from $1,242 to $2,897? --(PAN TO INCOME TAX POSTER)-- That's more than double--and still our free-spending Democratic Administrations keep wallowing in the red. --(BACK TO FORD)-- The sad fact is that with a Democrat in the White House and with huge Democratic majorities in the Congress, the federal government isn't able to pay for its extravagances despite the tremendous tax burden you're carrying. The free-spending Democrats will tell you that more taxes and a greater National Debt are nothing to worry about. But you still pay and pay. They don't tell you that the government borrowing necessary to pay the bills has helped drive up interest rates to the highest point in more than 40 ERALYR·FORD LIBRARY
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.