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Taxing sin
Distilling (and rolling?) your own is as old as the Republic. And what’s the harm in selling the excess production to customers eager for potent intoxicants. There’s just one catch. Morality aside, early on the government realized there was lots of money to be made from taxing sin. So excises on whiskey production have been with us almost from the start. A few years after the U.S. achieved independence, the first major test of federal government power occurred over taxation of ‘homemade’ whiskey.
“My daddy, he made whiskey; my granddaddy, he did too. We ain’t paid no whiskey tax since 1792”
The newly independent states, especially the western frontier states, considered themselves self-governing members of a coalition. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton believed a military confrontation was required to establish the supremacy of the federal government. Hamilton
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