Which Republican presidential candidate said this?

Which Republican candidate among the 2012 hopefuls asserted these truths in a speech?

This country needs every ounce of its energy to restore itself. The costs of government are all assessed upon the people.

This means that the farmer is doomed to provide a certain amount of money out of the sale of his produce, no matter how low the price, to pay his taxes. The manufacturer, the professional man, the clerk, must do the same from their income. The wage earner, often at a higher rate when compared to his earning, makes his contribution, perhaps not directly but indirectly, in the advanced cost of everything he buys.

The expenses of government reach everybody.

Taxes take from everyone a part of his earnings and force everyone to work for a certain part of his time for the government.

If you didn't figure it out, don't be down on yourself. It's a trick question--Calvin Coolidge, who was running for a full term in 1924, said it.



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