Little-Acorn
12-05-2014, 03:39 PM
On Dec. 5, 1933, the state of Utah ratified the 21st amendment to the Constitution, giving the measure the 3/4 of the states needed to make it part of the Constitution, and repealing the 18th amendment (Prohibition of alcohol).
Thus ended the biggest liberal do-gooder attempt to use government to save U.S. citizens from themselves. Such attempts didn't resume until the passage of Social Security, years after the initial passage of Prohibition.
The only difference between the two programs was that the government acknowledged the Feds didn't have the authority to prohibit alcohol, so they passed the 18th amendment give themselves that authority. But to pass the equally-unconstitutional Social Security program, they simply lied and called it a "tax program", though it was far more than that. The charade of Social Security legality remains to this day.
Thus ended the biggest liberal do-gooder attempt to use government to save U.S. citizens from themselves. Such attempts didn't resume until the passage of Social Security, years after the initial passage of Prohibition.
The only difference between the two programs was that the government acknowledged the Feds didn't have the authority to prohibit alcohol, so they passed the 18th amendment give themselves that authority. But to pass the equally-unconstitutional Social Security program, they simply lied and called it a "tax program", though it was far more than that. The charade of Social Security legality remains to this day.