“NOBLE EXPERIMENT” ANOTHER DISASTROUS-FOR-THE-NATION POWER GRAB:

In the last 10 years or so, I have done a lot of reading on Prohibition, and have concluded that the dimensions of the disaster it inflicted on our country are enormous. One of the great largely unknown stories is that Prohibition was a progressive project, driven by the same desire to perfect society and thereby eliminate the downsides of human nature that underlie all of progressivism’s fallacies. Another little-known aspect of Prohibition is that the income tax was created (and a constitutional amendment passed to enable same) as part of the deal which brought us Prohibition. The income tax was created to replace the alcohol taxes which had provided a siubstantial share of federal revenue. Talk about a Devil’s Bargain!

Indeed.