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consistent not to have a person responsible directly to
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the people who was a fiscal officer in that type of
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government, because the people weren't thinking in those
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terms, but today it is totally different. Wouldn't you
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say that taxation is probably the most important thing
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that happens to the people, vis-a-vis its govermnent?
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MR. GOLDSTE1N: I can tell you, I just finished
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campaigning throughout Maryland in a primary, in a general
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election. 1 think the thing that stood me in the best
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interests of the people is the fact that I took a stand
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in February of 1964, when I stood up to the Governor
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and the Maryland Legislature and said a tax increase was
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not needed. At that time, the people couldn't quite under-
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stand it. In the two-year interval of time, they gave it
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a lot of thought. I had person after person come to me
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and say, Mr. Goldstein, we are with you because of the
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stand you have taken, and you have proved right. Inde-
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pendent judgment it was. I feel today, with the cry for all
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types of services, education, health, highways, recreation
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the Welfare progress, and all the services that the people
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now get themselves geared to, it is more important than
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