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7. What precisely are the 2nd order effects? If that means more political activity equals more tax

Reply to bemildred (Reply #6)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 11:40 AM

Nov 2013

revenues, then what happens when the government starts to encourage more activity in order to increase the take. Their sad model is the USPS and junk mail: All the crap I don't want costs the least to reach me.

Don't regulations or even laws already provide that political air-time costs less than commercial speech?

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