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Radley Balko | 11.3.2006 8:17 AM


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.

Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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