The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly. (Henry Hazlitt)

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

Henry Hazlitt

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