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To: RubinBoomer

The same year the Bill of Rights was ratified, 1791, the whiskey tax was passed.


7 posted on 03/06/2020 5:33:07 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain
The same year the Bill of Rights was ratified, 1791, the whiskey tax was passed.

That's was tax, not a regulation. It was intended to pay off revolutionary war debt. It was also a very unpopular tax. It caused the Whiskey Rebellion.

It was repealed under Jefferson.

With that said, it was an excise tax, which is completely constitutional. There's a difference in taxing things and having bureaucrats regulate how you do business and how you live.

9 posted on 03/06/2020 5:42:18 AM PST by RubinBoomer (PA for Trump 2020)
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