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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

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George Will
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 4
Columnist
Journalist
Champaign
Illinois
George F. Will
George Frederick Will
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