> Did you know that at the time alcohol prohibition was instituted, fully 1/3 of the federal budget came from liquor taxes? It's not about general funding (for

> Did you know that at the time alcohol prohibition was instituted, fully 1/3 of the federal budget came from liquor taxes? It's not about general funding (for which the government has many sources, including straight-up printing), but about untraced monies. Money is not all equal, and for certain purposes, taxed money is much, much less valuable than untraceable drug money.