They are inclined to keep the witch doctors in business.

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Why make the witch doctors wealthy?

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In many places traditional religious and healing practices are still widespread, with red-and-white flags marking the homes of witch doctors.

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In other recent sorcery-related killings, police arrested 29 people in July last year accused of being part of a cannibal cult in Papua New Guinea's jungle interior and charged them with the murders of seven suspected witch doctors.

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Yet economists, like rival witch doctors, get red in the face promoting diametrically opposed economic remedies, sometimes sharing Nobel Prizes in the same year for theories that directly contradict each other.

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You go to one of these witch doctors, who casts a spell on the IRS. Now you can sell the first parcel without declaring a capital gain.

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