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单词 kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
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kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

Destroy 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
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