Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: ansel12

Don’t know. don’t know why it was ever ‘illegal’.


14 posted on 01/27/2014 2:22:46 PM PST by Theoria (End Socialism : No more GOP and Dem candidates)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies ]


To: Theoria

The answer is no, just as we don’t hear a peep from them on tobacco laws, even recent ones signed by Obama at the federal level.


21 posted on 01/27/2014 2:30:34 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]

To: Theoria
Don’t know. don’t know why it was ever ‘illegal’.

I believe that it goes way back to just after the Revolutionary War. The Colonies had morphed into States and populations were on the rise. Ambitious farmers could move westward and open up a prosperous life on the "frontier". They soon learned that logistics were entirely different from what had been their normal way of conduction business. The vast expanses of the newly opened lands caused their expenses for transporting their grain crops to market to skyrocket until someone (probably Scotch) built a still and the rest was history.

Transporting wagon loads of grain was replaced by kegs and barrels which were much easier to ship. There was money to be made and it wasn't long before the Federal Government instituted a tariff on distilled spirits. The farmers, having recently booted King George's tax collectors back to England were in no mood to split their profits with a fresh batch of parasites.

George Washington, not in a mood to allow open rebellion, sent in the army to quash the "Whisky Rebellion"1. Said quashing was accomplished in short order and we are still faced with paying "Excise" taxes to this day!

Regards,
GtG

1 Google "Whisky Rebellion" for more background.

42 posted on 01/27/2014 3:29:49 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson