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Edmund Contoski is the author of the award-winning book Makers and Takers: How Wealth and Progress Are Made and How They Are Taken Away or Prevented, and of The Trojan Project, a novel about restoring America. His website is www.amlibpub.com. He is also a columnist at Forces International Liberty News Network.