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I Don’t Love New York

I Don’t Love New York

New York authorities have found how to close the city’s budget deficit: cite business owners whose awnings have “too many words.”  Although most economists champion the role of government in the economy, I think this article shows once again that government basically is a mafia-structured organization that shakes down people.  At least Mafia services are such that people seek them out voluntarily. 

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