Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every …

Thomas Sowell
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Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.
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