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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JoeSmith, post: 749207, member: 18021&quot;]HOW EXCESSIVE GOVERNMENT KILLED ANCIENT ROME </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not a new article, but everything we&#039;re experiencing today, debasement of the currency, taxes, government regulation, price controls, is what destroyed ancient Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the article:</p><p><a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cjv14n2-7.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cjv14n2-7.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cjv14n2-7.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of quotes from it:</p><p>&quot;Despite the fact that the death penalty applied to violations of the price controls, they were a total failure.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In conclusion, the fall of Rome was fundamentally due to economic deterioration resulting from excessive taxation, inflation, and over-regulation.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;ve learned nothing in the last 2,000 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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