Showing posts with label 18th Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 18th Amendment. Show all posts
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Like Pete Hegseth, the early Americans were strong boozers

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  "ED: What’s one thing you wish everyone knew about American history? "SY:  I first came across W. J. Rorabaugh’s  Alcoholic ...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Methodism Remains A Grandmother Of Bolshevism

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Jewish Lutheran Atheist Mark Tooley says as much here for The American Spectator: Methodism, rather than stepping back to reflect on its 30...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Federal Revenues Came From Tariffs and Land Sales in First Half of 1800s, From Tariffs and Excises in Second Half

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A largely forgotten fact when discussing the history and meaning of US tax policy. Gary M. Anderson and Dolores T. Martin examined the role ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Explaining Property Taxes Then and Now

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Critical listeners to recent remarks I made here on The Newsmaker Show with Kevin Doran will have wished that I had done a better job of ex...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The 1913 Income Tax Enabled Stark Increases to Government Revenues to Pay for WWI

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Revenues went up by a factor of 6 in three short years, and dramatically reversed federal reliance on tariffs, excises and other taxes of on...

By 1875 One Third of Federal Revenues Came From Taxes on Alcohol

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According to Daniel Okrent's Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition : After lapsing in 1802, the alcohol excise was reimposed unde...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Prohibition: An Alliance Between Evangelical Christians and Criminals

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So said George Will last year in his review of Daniel Okrent's book which details how the women's war on men's drinking inspire...