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To: Michael.SF.
Must own some whiskey stock:


3 posted on 03/04/2021 8:53:41 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Slyfox

The Kennedy family holds almost all of the import licenses for Scotch. Joe Kennedy bought them up when Prohibition started.


20 posted on 03/04/2021 9:58:16 AM PST by MercyFlush (Senator Joseph McCarthy was right. )
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To: Slyfox

IIRC isn’t this the “Kennedy tax”? every fifth of whiskey imported into the US has a $1/bottle tax.


22 posted on 03/04/2021 10:01:12 AM PST by shotgun
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