Okrent — Revenue replacement can remove a practical obstacle to prohibition — PDF 71–72

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.

Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (New York: Scribner, 2010), physical PDF pp. 71–72, supplied 593-page copy.

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