March 22

[almaty 19]

On this day in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Beer and Wine Revenue Act. This law levies a federal tax on all alcoholic beverages to raise revenue for the federal government and gives individual states the option to further regulate the sale and distribution of beer and wine.

No fan of temperance himself, FDR had developed a taste for alcohol when he attended New York cocktail parties as a budding politician. (While president, FDR refused to fire his favorite personal valet for repeated drunkenness on the job.) FDR considered the new law “of the highest importance” for its potential to generate much-needed federal funds and included it in a sweeping set of New Deal policies designed to vault the U.S. economy out of the Great Depression.

The Beer and Wine Revenue act was followed, in December 1933, by the passage of the 21st Amendment, which officially ended Prohibition.

i' ll drink to that

[pax 0]

Amen.

[almaty 19]

as with the drug war....prohibtion never works...

[pedroh 21]

amen almaty.. amen

[j&js 0]

Haha, I taught this fun-fact to my classes today! Maybe not appropriate for my high school kids, but it sure got their attention!

[Jasman0717 9]

Now you're talking! Beer! Num Num