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Calvin Coolidge: Putting the Government directly into business is merely a combination of subsidy and price fixing aggravated by…

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Putting the Government directly into business is merely a combination of subsidy and price fixing aggravated by political pressure.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge warns that government involvement in business leads to a mix of subsidies and price fixing, influenced by political pressures.

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