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State of profusion: governments just keep growing

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The Purpose of Government

Wethaveis the purpose of government changed? What you see generally over the sort of long one of history is that governments exert more power over the economy. It gets a bit more complicated towards the end of the twentieth century, because on the one hand, you do have the color of qotn near le gotan of tache. This government has rolled back the frontiers of the state and will roll them back still further. So popular is our policy that itis being taken up all over the world. And ragen all the way along, the choice has been the same, more taxes, more spending, more regulation, more deficits, or the other choice, less of all

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