Fred L. Smith

Competitive Enterprise Institute

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Director of the Center for Advancing Capitalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute; former senior policy analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency

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Politics has always been about who controls government. Now it's about the value of government.

Is Government the Problem or the Solution?

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