10,000,000 dollars
alcohol prohibition
No. It created National Prohibition in the US.
prohibition
Less then four months.
Prohibition.
The enforcement of Prohibition was highly ineffective.
$277,000
2.2 billion
1,000,000,000,000.07
$15 trillion
1.trillion $
$1.
$17.8 billion in FY2012
With armed, sometimes lethal, force.
a $hit ton
almost 3 mil.
43 cents Per American in the United States, this comes out of taxes. Note that this is just how much support the US government puts into the arts, not how much the art industry profits every year.