Let the corporations do as they please

 

Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.
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Washington Rain Dance, p. 17

 

Lewis H. Lapham

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