The state is tempted to step in, not only because of the harm that smokers, lushes, spendthrifts and gluttons may do to others, but because of the harm they are doing to themselves.

ECONOMIST: Soft paternalism

Because some of the "reforms" Washington may hastily enact to "prevent corporate wrong-doing" could do immense harm to the economy.

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