To: SeekAndFind
Earliest US example of “crony capitalism”.... the whiskey tax of 1791. While ostensibly to pay for the Revolutionary War debt, it was impossed in such a manner as to greatly benefit the large distillers on the coast at the expense of the small distillers on the frontier.
PS...guess who was the largest distiller of spirits in the US at the time.
3 posted on
07/05/2019 8:01:07 AM PDT by
Roccus
(When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
To: Roccus
Just a wild guess - was it a Kennedy? Maybe Joe Kennedy’s father or uncle?
7 posted on
07/05/2019 8:15:47 AM PDT by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: Roccus
Thanks for the history lesson, by the way. I had no idea that kind of crony corruption was seeping into the USA prior to 1800.
9 posted on
07/05/2019 8:17:59 AM PDT by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: Roccus
Earliest US example of “crony capitalism”.... the whiskey tax of 1791. While ostensibly to pay for the Revolutionary War debt, it was impossed in such a manner as to greatly benefit the large distillers on the coast at the expense of the small distillers on the frontier.
PS...guess who was the largest distiller of spirits in the US at the time. Lee Iacocca?
To: Roccus
39 posted on
07/05/2019 1:08:42 PM PDT by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
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