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There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

-P. J. O'Rourke

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There's A Very Good Reason That Governments

P. J. O'Rourke

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

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