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When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

Donald J. Boudreaux

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Donald J. Boudreaux
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 1
Economist
New Orleans
Louisiana
Government
Initiation
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Theft
Inevitably
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