But tax policy should aim to do more than smother protest: it should also seek to raise the most money with the least distortion to economic activity.

但税收政策不能只是在平息“鹅叫”方面下功夫，而是要在经济活动中用最少的怪招增加更多的财富。

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Some of that is timing: Bahrain is competing for attention with protest activity in Algeria, Libya and Yemen.

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Yet absolutely no protest activity had been observed in that vicinity all day.

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The animal-rights protest to this activity was almost too faint for anyone but a marketing manager to hear, but faintly is how these issues begin.

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