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Ronald Reagan on carrying loaded firearms in public

Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Americans don’t go around carrying guns with the idea they’re using them to influence other Americans. There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.”

Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California, speaking in Sacramento, California, Tuesday, May 2, 1967, after “a dozen of the armed youth – members of Read the rest of this entry »

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Occupy Republicans

Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Thursday, November 17, 2011

We’re going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share.

– President Ronald Wilson Reagan, June 6, 1985, speaking at Northside High School in Atlanta, Georgia

Here’s the rest of his remark in context.

“In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying ten percent of his salary, and that’s crazy.”

When Reagan asked the crowd whether millionaires should be paying more or less in taxes than a bus driver, the crowd resoundingly responded Read the rest of this entry »

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