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Jun 15 2008, AP

A stiff drink comes with a stiff tax in Pittsburgh and surrounding towns these days, and that has made the county executive public enemy No. 1 in some quarters, reviled by name in song and on bar bills.Even comedians have gotten into the act, complaining...

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