Answer:
An excise tax is a legislated tax on specific goods or services at purchase such as fuel, tobacco, and alcohol. Excise taxes are intranational taxes imposed within a government infrastructure rather than international taxes imposed across country borders. A federal excise tax is usually collected from motor fuel sales, airline tickets, tobacco, and other goods and services
The two answers are as follows
"he was afraid that diem's defeat would cause communism to spread to other parts of asia"
and also
he did not want chi minh, a communist, to gain control of south vietnam
