The Whiskey Rebellion was a resistance movement in the western frontier of the United States in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. The conflict was rooted in the dissatisfaction in western counties with various policies of the eastern-based national government. The name of the uprising comes from the Whiskey Act of 1791, an excise tax on whiskey that was a central grievance of the westerners. The tax was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to centralize and fund the national debt. If all of this is starting to sound too familiar then it is for a very good reason, since was maybe the first, but surely not the last incident where central planners tried to regulate the consumption of liquer, in order to "civilize" society, and at the time trying to regulate the economy and tax it. As many of you may know the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913 on a Sunday two days before Christmas when most of Congress was on vacation, under president Woodrow Wilson. Under the progressive regime we saw the days of prohibition in the United States, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Another important development of the time was of course the income tax, after the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified in 1913. Source: Libertarianism, central banking and whisky
I very well could be wrong but over the years it has been my widely held belief that the eighteenth Amendment (the Income Tax) NEVER was ACTUALLY PASSED. Americans were hornswoggled then just like we are being screwed over by the income tax all these years in the recent past.
Americans were hornswoggled then just like we are being screwed over by the income tax all these years in the recent past.
True. Not sure what that had to do with the post, but great point. I think that government hates whiskey because they couldn't tax or control it as well because farmers and others were making it on there own. The government is the picture of greed, after all.
