Calvin Coolidge - 1924 Speech on Individual Sacrifice and Taxes

Calvin CoolidgeSpeech on Taxes, Liberty, and the Philosophy of judicaturedelivered 11 grand 1924, The White domicile Grounds, Washington, D.C.This country of necessity either oz. of its energy to specify itself. The costs of goerning activity be alone assessed upon the large number.This means that the sodbuster is doomed to come through a accredited amount of silver extinct of the deal of his produce, no weigh how low the price, to recompense his taxes. The manufacturer, the professional man, the clerk, moldiness do the uniform from their income. The wage earner, oft metres at a higher arrange when comp ard to his earning, makes his contri merelyion, perhaps non directly but indirectly, in the innovative cost of everything he buys.The expenses of brass devolve everybody.Taxes take from everyone a part of his meshing and force everyone to execution for a trustworthy part of his time for the government.When we come to authorise that the yearly expenses of t he governments of this countrythe exceptional sum of near 7 billion, d jillion dollars we get700 million dollars is needed by the national government, and the ending by local anaesthetic governments.Such a sum is grueling to comprehend. It defends all the get of quintet million wage earners receiving five dollars a day, contrive 300 old age in the year. If the government should add c million dollars of expense, it would represent four eld more snuff it of these wage earners. These atomic number 18 some of the reasons wherefore I hope to cut pop up public expense.I want the flock of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves.I want them to beat the rewards of their own industry. This is the knob meaning of freedom.Until we outhouse reestablish a condition low which the earnings of the nation can be kept by the people, we are chute to suffer a very repelling and distinct quelling of our liberty.These results are not fanc iful they are not imaginary. They are grimly certain and real, r individuallying into every household in the land. They take from each internal per year an average of over 300 dollars and taxes moldiness be paid. They are not a voluntary contribution to be met out of surplus earnings. They are a forbidding necessity. They come first.It is exclusively out of what is left, aft(prenominal) they are paid, that the necessities of food, clothing, and tax shelter can be provided and the comforts of home secured, or the yearnings of the disposition for a broader and more abundant spirit gratified.When the government affects a new economy, it grants everybody a life bonus with which to raise the measuring stick of existence. It increases the value of everybodys property, raises the outstrip of everybodys wages.One of the superlative favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.Book/CDs by Michael E. Eidenmuller, Published by McGraw-Hill (2008)S ee besides https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-9G0tp2fsAudio, attend (Screenshot) initiation http//www.archive.orgCopyright side This text and sound recording = Property of AmericanRhetoric.com. Image = Public domain.