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#1
03-15-2012, 02:42 PM
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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
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#2
03-15-2012, 04:18 PM
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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? 
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#3
03-15-2012, 06:10 PM
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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
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03-16-2012, 09:42 AM
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They have the right to collect taxes. And Washington don't play
 Pete
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