Seventy five years ago today, prohibition ended after a 13-year run. Finance won out over temperance in the midst of the Great Depression.
The Government saw an opportunity to boost sagging tax revenues. When it outlawed alcohol with the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, it eliminated a lucrative source of income.
Happy days returned again on December 5, 1933: The people could once again legally imbibe and the Government began acquiring the funds to expand its programs.
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