This is the largest tax bill in history. And to call it ‘social security’ is a fraud on the workingman…. I am not exaggerating the folly of this legislation. The saving it forces on our workers is a cruel hoax.
Alf Landon, the Republican nominee for president in 1936. From his speech “I Will Not Promise the Moon.”
Saturday, September 26, 1936
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