Revenue replacement can remove a practical obstacle to prohibition.
Removing a fiscal obstacle does not establish that a policy must follow or that revenue was every advocate’s primary concern.
Okrent argues that income taxation offered dry campaigners a way to answer the objection that government depended on alcohol excise revenue. Tax reform and prohibition supporters could therefore cooperate despite varied underlying motives.
Idea
Revenue replacement can remove a practical obstacle to prohibition.
Source reasoning
Okrent argues that income taxation offered dry campaigners a way to answer the objection that government depended on alcohol excise revenue. Tax reform and prohibition supporters could therefore cooperate despite varied underlying motives.
Boundary
Removing a fiscal obstacle does not establish that a policy must follow or that revenue was every advocate’s primary concern.
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