Do You Want More Governments?

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"We've tried to make it more expensive and less attractive, and i would say that has utterly failed. So what's an alternative appr another approach would be to create more jobs in the neighborhood," he says. "In places with bad government, you want more governments,. If you can find a way to credit there, whit's hard to do, cause they're an alternative to that."

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