PROSPERITY
Low taxation and free trade drive the creation of jobs, new technologies and wealth. This increasing wealth is enabling more and more nations to afford better healthcare and richer leisure opportunities. Government has a role in stopping anti-competitive behaviours and in protecting the weak from the excesses of market capitalism. But one of the greatest threats to contemporary capitalism is the way that it and the sixties socialist state undermine the qualities of hard work, self-restraint and thrift that all economic progress depends upon.
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