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"Debate? I Want a Tax Rebate"

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Description: Written in thick red letters, text reads: "Debate? I want a tax rebate."
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"I Did Not Vote For Inflation"

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Description: Text in large red letters reads" "I did not vote for inflation."
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It's a Dog's Life!

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Description: A group of men and women with their tongues hanging out of their mouths are running low to the ground on all fours, kicking up dust. There are dollar signs...
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"I Did Not Vote For . . ."

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Description: A political poster with text reads: "I Did Not Vote For Inflation, Recession, Unemployment, High Taxes Or Hypocrites. How about Using Your Tax Dollar On Yo...
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"34%"

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Description: Large text with red and black letters reads: "34% of your earned dollar goes for taxes. You work 2hrs. & 45 min. daily for the gov't. Taxes is (sic)...
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Panama Canal Poster

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Description: Text reads: "A politician buys* Somebody a shovel and then he wants all the credit for digging the Panama Canal. *With your taxes." Three shovels are drawn...
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"One Term Once"

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Description: Text in large red and black letters reads: "One term once" 'Entrenched politicians' (underlined) is not good democracy. With one term, more people become i...
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"Lower your standard of living — Pay your taxes!"

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Description: Cartoon figures drawn in color, with Uncle Sam holding a vacuum cleaner hose for sucking dollar bills away from a small figure, wearing only a barrel. Text...
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"4 More Years of What?"

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Description: Black on white caricature of President Jimmy Carter with wide grin, and the word "WHAT" in red letters. Question marks surround his head. The text reads: "...
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"Our National Debt . . . "

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Description: From the top, bold red letters read: "Our National Debt $3,122,700,000,000 (3 Trillion Bucks)," "Did you spend your share?" On the right is a cartoon profi...
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"It's Too Bad That the Taxpayer . . ."

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Description: Cartoon of an overweight man wearing a suit and tie. Text reads: "It's too bad that the taxpayer can't vote for a job and raise his own salary! As his poli...
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Piggy Politician

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Description: Black on white cartoon head of a pig wearing hat, spectacles, moustache, and coat and tie. Written on the side in large red an dblack letters the text read...
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"We Say: Beware of Shifty Pick Pockets!"

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Description: Red octopus with a black hat on its head, and all its arms marked by the name of kinds of taxes, such as "Utility Tax" and "Food Tax." On the face of the o...
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"The Big Rip Off!"

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Description: A man with his mouth open, and wearing a hat and sunglasses is sitting on a sulky (two-wheeled horse racing vehicle) while holding empty reins out in front...
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A Race with Death and Taxes

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Description: Cartoon of Uncle Sam, on the left, rolling up his sleeves, watching a man and the Grim Reaper running towards him. In the center is a barrier marked: "Stan...

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