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To: Nero Germanicus

The Whiskey Tax in question was repealed < 10 yr later. Coinkidense?


47 posted on 01/02/2016 8:55:55 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

From Wikipedia:
“The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and the ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws. The whiskey excise remained difficult to collect, however. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process already underway. The whiskey tax was repealed after Thomas Jefferson’s Republican Party, which opposed Hamilton’s Federalist Party, came to power in 1801.”


172 posted on 01/02/2016 10:58:33 PM PST by Nero Germanicus
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