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Government

Nov. 3, 2006

Tobacco Tax Initiative Is a Costly Pro-Business Hoax

FORUM COLUMN - By Norm Kjono - German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."


Forum Column

By Norm Kjono

     
      German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
      But what if the self-evident is ridiculed or denied? Do we then oppose the contradiction?
      O...

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