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Don Bacon: Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and…

On the recordMay 25, 2021
Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.
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Don Bacon
Republican · Nebraska

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Bacon emphasizes the importance of individual initiative over government intervention.

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