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Liberalism, like love, is a many-splendored thing. It sees, and responds to, every side of a situation, and it is never dogmatic. For instance, liberal government, which is perfectly capable of hounding you out of business as an enemy of society, thereupon proceeds to demand that you remain in business as a service to society, supplying jobs, wages, benefits, and a healthier tax base that provides liberal politicians with more money to play with.

“There is a movement afoot,” writes Richard B. McKenzie in his introduction to Plant Closings: Public or Private Choices? (Cato Institute, 224 Second Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003; $5), that seeks to destroy one of the last remaining vestiges of the free-enterprise system in the United States: the right of the firm to close up shop. Make no mistake about it— this movement is well-financed, dug in, broadening its political support at the federal and state levels, and (especially when there is a rash of large-plant closings) attracting more and more media attention.

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Chilton Williamson Jr.

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Liberalism, like love, is a many-splendored thing. It sees, and responds to, every side of a situation, and it is never dogmatic. For instance, liberal government, which is perfectly capable of hounding you out of business as an enemy of society, thereupon proceeds to demand that you remain in business as a service to society, supplying jobs, wages, benefits, and a healthier tax base that provides liberal politicians with more money to play with.

“There is a movement afoot,” writes Richard B. McKenzie in his introduction to Plant Closings: Public or Private Choices? (Cato Institute, 224 Second Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003; $5), that seeks to destroy one of the last remaining vestiges of the free-enterprise system in the United States: the right of the firm to close up shop. Make no mistake about it— this movement is well-financed, dug in, broadening its political support at the federal and state levels, and (especially when there is a rash of large-plant closings) attracting more and more media attention.