[Bubba Ho-Tep]

If they're making money hand over fist selling it when it's illegal then why would they stop when it's legal?

That's why the mob is still operating speakeasies with booze run in from Cuba or Canada.

Oh, wait...

[DouglasKC]

If they're making money hand over fist selling it when it's illegal then why would they stop when it's legal? That's why the mob is still operating speakeasies with booze run in from Cuba or Canada. Oh, wait...

The point is that the government made selling illegal alcohol on a large scale unprofitable and dangerous. They had a war on illegal alcohol to enable legal taxed alcohol to have no competition.