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To the editor:
Many people will find something strangely familiar about consumer outrage over escalating fuel prices — the deep resentment and dark suspicion that the price tag of an essential commodity is way too high, and costs are being manipulated by powers beyond our control.
The same feelings arise regularly among the 11,500 Virginia smallbusiness owners the National Federation of Independent Businesses represents in Richmond. In their case, however, the outrage is caused when Congress or the General Assembly decides to stick small-business owners with the bill when they’re unable to come up with any other plan to pay for society’s short
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