First, it amounted to an unusual slap in the face: state courts are not supposed to make rulings so ambiguous that the high court cannot understand the basis for them.

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For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

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"We, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it, " he said.

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