Read my Lips..............
 

.......You WILL pay this tax!

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyame...tones/whiskey/

BTW, I think he did the right thing.
Although I feel he was far too lenient with them.

Dave

Ain't it funny how the first rebellion was over whiskey and taxes. Why the hell can't we learn from that. Prohibition taught us that legislating morality was a fools errand. All it ever does is to turn some small time crooks into big ones and to promote disregarding of law in general.
The beginnings of kleptocracy?:rolleyes:

The law wasn't about prohibition of alcohol. The new government needed money to repay a rather large war debt to France. The folks in Pittsburgh, the western frontier at the time, rebelled violently, attacking the tax collecters. There was a similar rebellion in Massachussetts, (Sheas Rebellion) but it was pretty much violence free, although federal militia were sent.

I guess you could call it our first "Sin Tax".

Dave

oops, :)meant to say whiskey and sin taxes.

They have the right to collect taxes. And Washington don't play :)

Pete

Fixed that for you Pete.:rolleyes: