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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Will Wilkinson on makers and takers

Posted on 4:38 PM by Unknown
Maybe the best thing I have read so far about the whole 47 percent business.

Though a comedian on NPR did say something to the effect that if he had known there would be all this math, he never would have started paying attention to politics.

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