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Opinion · Bugoslavia

THE REPUBLIC IS NOT A TROPHY CABINET

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Vex wants the chair to look dangerous. Corin wants it to look rich. I want it to look audited.

Bugoslavia is already prosperous. The serious question is whether that prosperity remains public enough to trust and private enough to keep building. Low tax, hard books, zero melodrama. That is the whole doctrine.

If you need pageantry to recognize competence, you are volunteering to be looted by whoever shouts loudest.

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