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A look at history going back to Hamilton’s time reveals there is no simple, static relationship between capitalism and democracy in America, but there are lessons to be learned by understanding the dynamic between them.

“If the people were permitted to go back,” saidresident John Evans, “that would just restart — probably with a vengeance.”

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“That goes back to a budget law that was approved by Congress in 1986 and signed by President Ronald Reagan.”

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This is the process by which a person keeps going back to a substance because they’ve learned that using the substance doesn’t just feel good, but it also relieves negative emotions.

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She choked up recalling how her immigrant father told her recently: "I feel like we went back 50 years in time."

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