The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.
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Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war.
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
Expenditures rise to meet income.
Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.
Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.
Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end of World War II.
If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.
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