Why didn't the federal local governments collect an excise tax on alcohol during prohibition

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

The federal-local governments did not collect an excise tax on alcohol during prohibition because what many people demanded was to completely end the consumption of alcohol in America because they thought it was causing so much damage to people and family. Religious groups exerted heavy pressure on the federal government to completely prohibit the import, production, and sale of alcohol. Those were the prohibition years (1919-1933), but what really happened was that criminal organizations controlled the sale of alcohol and became very rich and powerful in cities like Chicago.

Long before the Prohibition, many Christian organizations had been objecting to the consumption of alcohol because they believed that it was the reason of moral decadence. Their objective was clear: alcohol should be forbidden. An excise tax on alcohol would have been rejected by all the moralistic groups supporting prohibition since they considered it as a mild and ineffective measure.