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Big Government at the Bilderberg Summit
Big Government at the Bilderberg Summit
Oct 28, 2025 8:31 AM

In this week’s Acton Commentary, Jonathan Witt asks “Why do entrepreneurs who don’t want government intimately involved in the economy want to hob nob?”

Think about it. Why do even some entrepreneurs who do not want government intimately involved in the economy pelled to hob nob with all of those European and American politicians at this year’s Bilderberg summit? Maybe what happened to Bill Gates has something to do with it. By most accounts, Gates went about building up Microsoft, happy in the knowledge that his Redmond, Washington operation was far away from the Washington on the other coast. But then Washington D.C. found him and began to make life difficult for him.

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