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Source of affluence

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 31, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories prosperityTags P. J. O’Rourke

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