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Brickbats

Brickbat: Papers, Please

Charles Oliver | 8.15.2017 4:00 AM

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Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control officers will begin going door-to-door in West Covina to make sure dog owners have paid their license fees. Officials admit the move is aimed at raising revenue.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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