Don Boudreaux has a very interesting column this week arguing that it wasn’t an interest in liberty or recognition of the Volstead Act’s corrupting influences or catastrophic failures that ended alcohol prohibition. It was the fact that the Depression dried up federal tax revenues, and the government needed the tax money it could generate from booze.

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