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kill the goose that lays the golden eggsDestroy a reliable and valuable source of income: high taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs...- By outsourcing American jobs, American companies are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, the American consumer.
- But what the market makers truly don't seem to understand is that neither people nor markets can be controlled for long, and with every well-intentioned stabilization exercise, they risk killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
- The important thing today is not the redistribution of the national wealth, but its creation; here Socialism is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
With allusion to one of Aesop's fables See parent entry: egg |