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In the end government will probably be undersold and beaten down to a losing price.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “In the end government will probably be undersold and beaten down to a losing price.”
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Burke warns that government intervention in the salt market may lead to unsustainable pricing and economic instability.
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