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laissez-faire
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laissez-faire 
1. the principle that businesses should not be controlled by the government The previous government had a policy of laissez-faire, whereas this government wants a closer partnership with industry.
2. the wish not to control people or not to become involved in their actions There are no effective laws to protect women from abusive husbands. An attitude of laissez-faire prevails.


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I fear that the Future Jobs Fund will be another missed opportunity for Liverpool, unless the Lib Dems abandon failed trickle down, laissez faire economics and seriously begin to address worklessness and in-work poverty.
A missed opportunity; LETTERS to the EDITOR by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
MASS industrial closures in the UK come as no surprise given we run a laissez faire economy where money shuffles reign supreme and we have deliberately fostered a society of super greed.
Foster super greedy society; Your Say by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
The problem with all this is that even if you think taxes are too high, government is a bloated, listing white elephant, and the debt from Obama spending will orbit somewhere past Pluto, this bunch's prescription for solving the crisis - cut taxes, cut spending, and return to 19th century laissez faire capitalism - would guarantee that America's streets would be stuffed with shopping carts, paper shanties, soup kitchens and bread lines ala the 1933 Great Depression.
They're just teed off at Obama by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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