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Greeks find tax hike on a traditional liquor hard to swallow
Amid the financial crisis, there's one EU-imposed austerity measure that's causing particular angst among Greek citizens: a tax hike on one of the country's favorite traditional liquors. Greeks are worried that raising taxes on tsipouro, a powerful, clear type of brandy, will hurt the industry and farmers. Hari Sreenivasan reports.