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The Edmund Burke Institute publishers an occasional informal newsletter. In these we have tried to redress the balance between those who believe that the state should promote economic activity, and those who believe, as we do, that individual initiative is the motor of prosperity. If you would like to subscribe to it please go the "Join us" page. Here are some extracts from our first issue.

"One situation has always confused me…A public health service has public hospitals funded by.. tax receipts paid by the public. Why are private beds allowed in them? To my way of thinking in a free market private beds belong in a private hospital, and public hospitals should be there for the public only. What am I missing?"

"The question [is] whether the Irish economic miracle we have just experienced will be a permanent as result of the structural changes to our taxes and infrastructure- or whether it will be as temporary as the golden days of Argentina?"

"There is little economic sense to support the Treaty of Nice and many economic reasons to reject it. If the Nice treaty is passed one can only hope that the Commission will be too busy building bureaucratic empires to destroy the economic success that Ireland has enjoyed…"

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