Boehner Quotes Lincoln, But Omits Part About Raising Taxes

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/boehner-quotes-lincoln-but-omits-part-about-raising

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In the memo, Boehner used Lincoln's words, as quoted in the book "Congressman Lincoln."

The book Congressman Lincoln by Chris DeRose, which I recently read, includes a chapter focused on Abraham Lincoln’s efforts to help craft a new national agenda. At one point in the book, young Lincoln warns that government debt is “growing with a rapidity fearful to contemplate.”

“(Government debt) is a system not only ruinous while it lasts, but one that must soon fail and leave us destitute,” Lincoln warns his countrymen in Congressman Lincoln. “An individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from – so must it be with a government.”

But as Johnson pointed out, Boehner left out Lincoln's lamentation that the debt was created by an "unwillingness either to increase the tariff or resort to direct taxation."

John Boehner Quote Of Lincoln Edits Out His Call For Higher Taxes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/john-boehner-lincoln_n_2972725.html

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"By this means a new national debt has been created, and is still growing on us with a rapidity fearful to contemplate -- a rapidity only reasonably to be expected in time of war. This state of things has been produced by a prevailing unwillingness either to increase the tariff or resort to direct taxation. But the one or the other must come," Lincoln wrote in the Whig Circular in 1843.

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In his writing, Lincoln goes further, calling for a direct tax or tariff. "We repeat, then, that a tariff sufficient for revenue, or a direct tax, must soon be resorted to; and, indeed, we believe this alternative is now denied by no one," he wrote. Lincoln then goes onto debate the various merits and pitfalls of establishing a direct tax versus increasing tariffs.