“- Ebenezer Scrooge: Why are these people out here? Men and women in rags. Children eating scraps! There are institutions.
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Have you visited any of them? These institutions you speak of?
- Ebenezer Scrooge: No! I am taxed for them. Isn't that enough?”
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