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    "title": "If the rich and powerful were forced to do time in prison for doing drugs, there would be a stronger incentive to end the drug war.",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>We often hear a lot, especially from those who want to tear them down, about the top 1 percent. We don't hear nearly as much about the bottom 1 percent. Who are they? Where are they? Why are they in the bottom 1 percent? And what should we do about them?</p>\n<p>It turns out that about two thirds of the people in the bottom 1 percent are in U.S. prisons. And of these people, a few hundred thousand are there for victimless crimes. Letting them out would help them and save us taxpayer money. That\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a win-win.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/the_bottom_one_1.html\">The Bottom One Percent, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty</a></em>.</p>\n"
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