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…manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol. The money derived from the sin tax would have more than financed this federal task force. The proceeds derived from the sin tax could have also been used to finance the building of public facilities like schools and libraries. Allowing citizens to drink, penalizing them with a sin tax, and building public learning facilities would have created a very synergistic approach to a democratic federal government of that period.