Back in 2014, I shared a meme with a motto that was perfect for Washington, DC.
Today, let’s do something similar. But instead of a motto specifically for America’s unsavory capital, how about one sentence that summarizes the mentality of all governments.
I used a fill-in-the-blank format because there are so many possible answers.
After all, people in government value taxes more than growth, jobs, competitiveness, and all sorts of other factors.
And one of those other factors is public health, as we can see in this report by Rachel Pannett and Julia Mio Inuma in the Washington Post.
Japanese officials, worried about shifting demographics and a sharp decline in sintax revenue, have come up with an unusual fix for their fiscal woes: encouraging young people to drink more. …Liquor tax revenue in the fiscal 2020 year
was about $8.4 billion, a plunge of…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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