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Whisky Taxes and the National Debt

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 16, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 24.

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Whisky Taxes and the National Debt

The New York Tribune estimates that the internal revenue tax upon whisky and tobacco alone, will, after making proper allowance for diminution of consumption and evasions of the law, be more than enough to pay the interest upon our national debt, even if it should amount to $2,500,000,000.