Is asking a duplicate question acceptable in some cases?

Is asking a duplicate question acceptable in some cases?
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Of course NOT. How can you even suggest such a thing? ask-public would NEVER allow that type of inapprorpriate behavior. I mean, apparently my question about The Obama Budget was too similar to my question about Too Much Regulation that ask-public had to remove it.
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