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Econ 101

Radley Balko | 11.3.2006 8:17 AM

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Public health fanatics in Seattle banned 29 cheap brands of booze preferred by poor people from large swaths of the city—for their own good, of course.  Poor people in Seattle have since switched to the 30th and 31st cheapest brands.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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