Forecast, not enacted, last week was a doubling and a more than doubling of each and every U. S. citizen's income tax. For the enemies of Prohibition had occasion to demonstrate that adequate enforcement would cost a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) a year. And the friends and promoters of Prohibition had every reason to assure each other that—cost what it might —Congress would vote all monies needed for this cause.
Meanwhile, by debate, by letter, by whisper, by everything except precise calculation, the official and unofficial agencies of...
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