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Show business is a bit like guys that say, You know, that hooker really likes me.
Jay Leno (quoted in Bill Carter, The Late Shift)
[In the wisecracking words of comedian Jay Leno, politics is just show business for ugly people]

Invisible Hands & Markets: The Company of Strangers: Why Inequality Is Bad for the Economy
Whenever progressives propose ways to redistribute wealth from the rich to those with low and moderate incomes, conservative politicians and economists accuse them of trying to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. The advocates of unfettered capitalism proclaim that inequality is good for the economy because it promotes economic growth. Unequal incomes, they say, provide the incentives necessary to guide productive economic decisions by businesses and individuals. Try to reduce inequality, and you’ll sap growth
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