If a region, like California or France, however blessed with beauty, culture, ecosystem, and climate, becomes too rapacious in its taxation and too intrusive in its regulation, people will leave, particularly successful people who are in demand many places and whose assets are more portable.

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So too has the rejection of designs for a dynamic, arguably rapacious-looking, eagle to decorate a wall of the new hall.

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But too often policymakers, attempting to pacify consumer desires or protect them from rapacious corporations, impose scarcity.

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