Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 153

STULTA AND PUERA. There were, no matter where, two towns called Stulta and Puera. They completed at great cost a highway from the one town to the other. When this was done, Stulta said to herself, "See how Puera inundates us with her products; we must see to it." In consequence, they created and paid a body of _obstructives_, so called because their business was to place _obstacles_ in the way of traffic coming from Puera. Soon afterwards, Puera did the same.

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