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    "title": "Taxes and Human Weakness",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2012-02-16 18:26:47 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>When someone drops out of high school, overeats, or fails to exercise, you tell us that their behavior is only \"human.\"\u00c2\u00a0 But if a conservative or libertarian objects to paying taxes to help people who make these choices, you get angry.\u00c2\u00a0 Question: Why are you so forgiving of people with irresponsible lifestyles, but so outraged by people who don't want to pay taxes to help people with irresponsible lifestyles?\u00c2\u00a0 This seems morally perverse.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/02/krugman_human_w.html\">Krugman, Human Weakness, and Desert, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty</a></em>.</p>\n"
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