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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4519)	2/14/2008 4:31:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Support was obviously wide, but relatively shallow. Well there was a deep core of political activists, but you never really had strong majorities that cared deeply about making alcohol illegal. You had a very small committed minority, and small to at most moderate majorities that went along. Most important you didn't create a new constituency, at least not a significant one. Prohibition didn't bring a lot of money to anyone except perhaps criminal organizations. If you start giving out something "for free" to millions of people you create a very large and (if what your giving away is considered important) passionate constituency, which makes it hard to reverse course.

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