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Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

~George Will

Topics: Analysis Applying Behave Behavior Choice Components Economic Government Groups How Incentives Influence Interest Obama Politics Public Seems Theory Unfamiliar Utterly

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Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

~George Will

Topics: Big Big Government Confidence Distribution Drives Enable Government Inevitably Manipulate Sophistication Them Those Upward Wealth Whose

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The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

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Topics: Against Become Both Currency Euro Europe Europeans Expression Fiction Geographic Merely Most Political Rather Somehow Than Wishes

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The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.

~George Will

Topics: Arts Aspiration Bills Celebrating Colorful Culture Designs Euro Gone Goodbye Heroes Introduced Narratives National Nations Paper Particular Pictures Proclaim Said Unique Utopian

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The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

~George Will

Topics: Cultural Despair Euro European Expresses History Holocaust People Pleases Shakespeare Whom

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There is no 'European people' united by common mores.

~George Will

Topics: Common European People United

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Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.

~George Will

Topics: Arizona Assert Being Country Critics Federal Law Makes Offense Right Seem Some State Understand

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America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

~George Will

Topics: America Arizona Border Comprehensive Control Developed Developing Estimated First First Things Government Illegal Illegal Immigrants Immigrants Immigration Immigration Reform Insisting Nation Only Reform Refusal Sensibly Things Why

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Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

~George Will

Topics: Closest Contacts Distance Fine Front Hispanics Illegal Illegal Immigrants Immigrants Judged Men Men And Women Passing People Plates Put Restaurants Should Them Through Trim Who Whose Women

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When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

~George Will

Topics: Advocate After Amendment Conservatives Consider Consumption Liberals Merits Respond Should Tax Taxing Value-Added Will

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: May 4th, 1941

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