“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”

— Ronald Reagan

[Conservatives betrayed: how George W. Bush and other big government republicans hijacked the Conservative cause, Viguerie, Richard A., Bonus Books, 978-1-56625-285-0, 43]
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