How many people did the United States Government kill by tagging industrial alcohol used by bootleggers during Prohibition?

A. None, you leftist twat.  If, however, we let death panels become the law of the land, dontcha know…

B. Millions.  Which paved the way for MKULTRA, and the global conspiracy that Nixon outlined in crayon on the walls of the Oval Office that, if you look at the acrostic on page twelve of the transcript for this year’s live Super Bowl commentary…

C. Only a few, and after the deaths were confirmed, the government decreased the intensity of its efforts to poison its own citizens.

D. 500.

E. 1,000.

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V. “At least 10,000,” according to Slate:

During Prohibition, however, an official sense of higher purpose kept the poisoning program in place. As the Chicago Tribune editorialized in 1927: “Normally, no American government would engage in such business. … It is only in the curious fanaticism of Prohibition that any means, however barbarous, are considered justified.” Others, however, accused lawmakers opposed to the poisoning plan of being in cahoots with criminals and argued that bootleggers and their law-breaking alcoholic customers deserved no sympathy. “Must Uncle Sam guarantee safety first for souses?” asked Nebraska’s Omaha Bee.

“I will make them obey…even if I have to kill half of them.”

-Genghis Khan, Mongol

[Thanks to Hairee Lee for providing vernacularity.  Get it?]

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