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By Matthew Yglesias on Jul 11, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Senate Finance Committee debates relative merits of “surtax” on high-income taxpayers versus a beer tax . . . in 1921. The idea of a “fountain syrup tax” even gets mentioned.

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