[tacticalogic]

Ironically, Washington was one of the largest distillers of whiskey in early America.

I think he'd have agreed to shut down his distilleries given a properly ratified Constitutional Amendment authorizing the federal government to order it. He'd have resisted the idea that they could do it as an exercise in "regulating commerce".

[dirtboy]

Look up the Whiskey Rebellion and get back to me. Washington has no problem applying federal force against those resisting a rather dubious federal tax.