Pennsylvania paper retracts editorial panning Gettysburg Address

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11. The role of the income tax in Prohibition is pretty significant.

Okrent doesn't get into it as deeply in this interview, but a lot of the push to repeal the 18th Amendment came from the wealthy, who wanted their taxes lowered. Of course, it didn't really work; Prohibition was ended but the taxes went up anyway. Some of the opponents of Prohibition wound up in the anti-FDR Liberty League, Al Smith probably being the most notable example.