Slippery slope
Cry Wolf Quotes
This is a huge, huge loophole. If they could raise one (food tax), they could raise another one.
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Diana Winterhalter, a spokeswoman for the bottlers' coalition, called the Stop Taxes on Food Committee. Cleveland Plain-Dealer, 1994.
[Medicare will usher in] federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.
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From Ronald Reagan’s 1961 taped anti-Medicare message, “Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine” paid for by AMA and AMPAC.
[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.
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From Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly
Passing this bill puts us on a slippery slope to closing exemptions and mandating paid leave.
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Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX).
