"When you have a goose that lays golden eggs, you clip its wings and don't let it leave the farm, " he wrote in one filing.

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The lesson to be learned is not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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So why are the local politicians considering a plan to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?

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They might kill the goose that lays the golden eggs because they can't figure out how to keep both it and themselves alive.

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It's a win-win situation, except that Chicago Tribune ace reporter Lexie Littleton (Renee Zellweger) has been assigned to cook the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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Voters around the world are increasingly worried that governments are not only taxing the goose that lays the golden eggs but risking the very life of the goose.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs, i.e.

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The prevailing narrative on the right is that we are locked in a two-sided conflict pitting American business against ham-handed legislators and clueless regulators whose well-intentioned but misguided laws, regulations, taxes, and mandates threaten to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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Looking at the West's current economic woes, it is easy to share Ms. McCloskey's concern that unless we revive a sense of dignity and approbation for entrepreneurship and innovation, we might easily kill the goose that lays the golden eggs of our prosperity.

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Why, you might ask, would the UK want to walk away from all that wealth - give up the goose that lays so many golden eggs?

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