And you are incapable of seeing the difference between passive resistance and active rebellion? There was no rebellion outside western Pennsylvania as I said. Apparently there was a greater ability in the other areas to hold one's liquor than exhibited in Penn and therefore the cranks were not able to agitate violence.
Of course, your quote gets the sequence all wrong. The violence in Pa. caused the fedgov to move to protect its officers. It did not "chose to make a fuss" but RESPONDED to that fuss.
Nor is there a coherent argument against the tax in the list of dubious complaints about it.
The Rebellion did have a positive effect since it showed that the fedgov would not back down to violence and would back up the law rather than surrender to the lawless. Its negative effect was that it allowed the Jeffersonians to agitate and distort reality to attract enough of the gullible to attain power. No wonder it appeals to you.
Hamilton was a monarchist who chose to impose an oppressive form of taxation on the American People, much like his aristocratic, British predecessors whom he admired.