[inquest]

I should have used "Chinese moonshine" or saki or maybe Bombay gin so as not to be misunderstood.

It still wouldn't make for a comparison to the Whiskey Rebellion. It wasn't the consumers of the whiskey who were up in arms, but the producers, because it was their livelihood that was being put in the vise.

[fallujah-nuker]

It still wouldn't make for a comparison to the Whiskey Rebellion. It wasn't the consumers of the whiskey who were up in arms, but the producers, because it was their livelihood that was being put in the vise.

Very true, they were on the far side of the Alleghenies and the cost of transport was very high in the days before canals and rail. Producing whiskey was the best way of adding maximum value to their corn to bring the best price in the eastern markets.

[Simo Hayha]

LOL. When I said "a kind of Whiskey Rebellion" in the "frontier" I was alluding to the fine citizens who would be affected by higher tariffs in those places, i.e. India, China, Japan, anyplace but the USA. And who are the "producers" in those countries?