Pursuing such a vision would require very high marginal tax rates on anyone with above average production, income and wealth, which experience as well as theory shows us leads to less production.

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The extracts may in theory help to decrease production of liver toxins and free radicals which could be partially responsible for producing hangover symptoms.

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Insofar as civilization's collapse is something we're bringing upon ourselves with a little help from world powers, Martin and his readers might relate to radical environmentalists or peak oil environmentalists, who subscribe to the theory that there is a date when petroleum production will max out and decline rapidly.

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Those permanent increases only further reduce incentives for production, and only contribute further to economic downturn and stagnation under any economic theory.

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