To an administration that believes the answer to every problem is lower taxes, the appeal of these ideas is obvious.

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Now allow me to present to you the answer to an executive solution to an old problem.

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And the economic calculus which we have developed to solve this logical problem, though an important step toward the solution of the economic problem of society, does not yet provide an answer to it.

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Might the monitoring of discussion groups provide an answer to that problem?

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But I can tell you that the wrong answer is to pretend like this problem will go away if we maintain an unsustainable status quo.

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