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« on: August 03, 2009, 08:57:37 PM » |
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Don Boudreaux, chair of the George Mason University's Economics dept.
...Uncle Sam is on the verge of paying the City of Los Angeles $30 million to subsidize a ten-year run of Cirque du Soleil.
So it's finally come to pass - America has embarked on the same road down which ancient Rome marched to its ruin: Uncle Sam not only subsidizes bread (by subsidizing wheat production) but now also circuses.
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