“If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.”

— Arthur Laffer

CNN Newsroom http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908040014, (August 4, 2009)

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