Japanese consumers are said (by politicians and bureaucrats, that is) to be either indifferent to how such protection reduces choice and raises prices, or to support protectionism because they fear contaminated and disease-bearing foreign products, and the vulnerability of Japan to blockages of agricultural product imports.

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Council tax, which raises a quarter of local-government revenues, is unpopular, and businessmen fear that if councils could set business taxes they would head in only one direction.

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