How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/aug/26/lawless-prohibition-gangsters-speakeasies
Debt exploded when wages stagnated.
Your taxes are propping up the economy to the benefit of those at the top (through government debt) and at the expense of those at the bottom (through stagnant wages).