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Prosperity Lost
By Walter E. Williams
March 18, 2009

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You might wonder how congressmen can get away with taxes and other measures that reduce our prosperity potential. Part of the answer is the anti-business climate promoted in academia and the news media. The more important reason is that prosperity foregone is invisible. In other words, we can never tell how much richer we would have been without today's level of congressional interference in our lives and therefore don't fight it as much as we should.

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Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

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