Emotional readers may well reply to the above that Napolitano and libertarians more broadly seek a return to the segregation of the past.

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To his own numbers, Bartlett may well reply today that tax rates can no longer be explained away as the reason for a reduction in startups, and subsequent IPOs (46 in 2010 versus 210 in 2000).

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You may cut me off in mid-sentence or gaze at your Blackberry during my reply.

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You may be sure, though, that the Chomskyan heavy artillery will be making its first ranging shots in reply, even as you read this article.

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