The Whiskey Rebellion was "beneficial" to our nation?
Nonsense. It almost destroyed our nation.
That was a tempest in a tea cup and hardly "almost destroyed our nation." Talk about wild-eyed exaggeration. It collapsed like a bad dream at the show of force just as Washington and Hamilton said it would.
Besides it was not a policy of W-H but a result of listening to crackpots and drunks who attacked agents of the fedgov in one locale ONLY. It would have never happened had the locals not been sampling their product so prodigously.