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		<title>Via LearnLiberty &#8211; Social Cooperation: Why thieves hate free markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via LearnLiberty.org: And also: Society is concerted action, cooperation. Society is the outcome of conscious and purposeful behaviour. &#8230; Individual man is born into a socially organized environment. In this sense alone we may accept the saying that society is&#8211;logically or historically&#8211;antecedent to the individual. In every other sense this dictum is either empty or ]]></description>
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		<title>The average family pays £656,000 in tax over their lifetime</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) shows that the average family pays £656,000 in tax over their lifetime. After years of the state overspending and misusing our money we now have a greater idea of how far this legacy cripples the finances of British families. The TPA’s latest research shows the total amount of direct and indirect tax that ]]></description>
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		<title>Telegraph: &#8220;Will the great interest rate gamble pay off?&#8221; No.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Telegraph, Will the great interest rate gamble pay off? By the time this month’s auction is over, the ECB will have doled out nearly one and a half trillion euros of “free” money to help keep the banking system alive, with much more to come over the months ahead. Nobody is under any ]]></description>
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		<title>The inflation or deflation song</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via &#8220;Merle Hazard&#8221;: I&#8217;m reminded of economist James Buchanan&#8217;s words: The market will not work effectively with monetary anarchy. Politicization is not an effective alternative. We must commence meaningful dialogue with acceptance of these elementary verities. Far too much has been said and written in elaboration of the first statement, which too often is taken ]]></description>
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		<title>Wycombe Hospital &#8211; consultation events in February</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/02/wycombe-hospital-consultation-events-in-february/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Better Healthcare in Bucks » Events, the consultation events and roadshows for our local NHS services in February: Consultation event 2nd Marlow Court Gardens &#124; 6.30pm- 9.30pm 8th Buckingham Community Centre &#124; 6.30pm- 9.30pm Map 13th South Bucks  Evreham Centre  – Iver &#124; 2pm- 5pm Map 21st Aylesbury – Oculus, Aylesbury Vale District Council  &#124; 2pm-5pm Map 27th ]]></description>
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		<title>David Willetts, &#8220;Our university revolution has only just begun&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Willetts writes in the Telegraph: Our university revolution has only just begun: Despite some dire warnings about the Coalition’s student finance reforms, we’ve already had more applications to university than in any year under the previous government. Once the decline in the total number of 18 year olds has been accounted for, their application ]]></description>
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		<title>Economics in One Lesson: V – Taxes Discourage Production</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/02/v-taxes-discourage-production/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every week over 26 weeks, I&#8217;ll be publishing a précis of a chapter of Henry Hazlitt&#8217;s brilliant 1946 book, Economics in One Lesson, prepared by Michael Dowsett during his internship. The index page is here. This week, Taxes Discourage Production, which discusses how taxes and government spending inhibit progress, hamper the development of real wages ]]></description>
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		<title>How to repatriate 130 EU laws</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/how-to-repatriate-130-eu-laws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Open Europe published a new report that shows how the Government could repatriate 130 EU laws on crime and policing, including the controversial European Arrest Warrant. The Government must decide before June 2014 whether a whole raft of EU police and justice laws, adopted before the Lisbon Treaty took force, will continue to ]]></description>
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		<title>The Initiative for a Free and Prospering Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/the-initiative-for-a-free-and-prospering-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister today made a spirited defence of the Government&#8217;s position following the European Council meeting, in the face of ridiculous pantomime behaviour by Labour. I was glad to be called to ask a question, in which I brought to the Prime Minister&#8217;s attention the Initiative for a Free and Prospering Europe, launched yesterday: ]]></description>
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		<title>Is the EU maintaining the Rule of Law?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their haste to use ever greater state power to solve the problems caused by excess state power, the European nations intend, it appears, to use an EU institution, the ECJ, to arbitrate disputes under a non-EU treaty. This may seem arcane, but EU matters always are. It&#8217;s one of the reasons democrats and lovers ]]></description>
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