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"Socialize the risk, privatize the profit"

Matt Welch | 5.6.2005 4:12 PM

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The New York Press' Matt Taibbi is one of those hit-or-miss columnists for me, but this rant against Mayor Bloomberg's obscene sports welfare may be his biggest Hit yet. The cartoon's good, too.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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