The Damage to the United States Caused by the Prohibition

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The United States Congress proposed the 18th Amendment, which banned the sale, manufacture, and consumption of alcoholic beverages due to mass consumption of alcohol, alcohol related health problems, husbands drinking away their family wealth, and many divorces from alcohol related problems. From its ratification in 1920, Prohibition irreparably damaged the United States. By almost bringing the country into complete corruption, launching a skyrocket in organized crime, and decreased revenue from lost taxes, it caused the government to almost go bankrupt, and in a desperate attempt to make money the government repealed the Prohibition Act in the simple need for cash flow.
During Prohibition age corruption was everywhere doctors were giving alcohol containing medicines to almost anyone, cops and other law enforcement agents were receiving bribes and payoffs from gangs like al capone. Also cops would never raid saloons unless they became violent other than that they let the saloons and gangs go about their business.
Police were not the only ones that were corrupted or bribed many of whom were judges and politicians to turn a blind eye on the gangsters and illegal alcohol. Even the President at that time had his own wine cellar.
At one point, corruption became so bad that the legal system could not cope with all the gangsters so they created a small army of 3,000 agents to enforce prohibition but this was not strong enough so under the command of J. Edgar Hoover it was called the Investigation Bureau later called the federal investigation bureau (F.B.I) and Edgars men were tougher agents and did not let anything slip past them and started to crack down on bootlegging and rum running. Finally the government was taking serious act...

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...en soldiers would hide little flasks of prohibited whiskey in the boot legs and get tim into army camps.
This tactic was suddenly widespread and popular among the most notorious gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran they smuggled illegal booze from all over the country to one of the biggest hubs of alcohol distribution the windy city (Chicago) where the most notorious gangster al Capone kept the whole city satisfied by moving it by the truckloads into the city.
Another and probably more important reason why prohibition was repealed is because of government financial problems due to lost government taxes and the expense of enforcing prohibition was a major burden on the already dwindling United States Treasury due to the great depression.
One huge financial problem that the government faced was lost tax revenue from the mass amount of tax on alcohol production.

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