What Do You Think of Ontax Policy and What Can We Do About It?

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Derlin: It's possible to incentivizes the wrong things and disincentivs the right ings. He says focus should be on good that we're trying to accomplish, or problems we're attempting to stamp out. "I think looking at ow, the suffering of a factory farmed animals, it's not a good place right now," he adds.

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