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… is from page 367 of the 2016 second edition of Thomas Sowell’s important volume Wealth, Poverty and Politics [2]:
What is remarkable about many crusades to have the government intervene in the terms of economic transactions involving incomes is the contrast between the fervor of the campaigns for these interventions and the far lesser interest, or no visible interest at all, in empirical evidence about how these interventions turn out.