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Whiskey Rebellion, Part Two?

I was amused while reading Undaunted Courage that Pittsburgh was one of the flash points of the Whiskey Rebellion. With my fair city currently embroiled in a drink tax controversy, it's obvious that whatever is old is new again.

Reading a bit more about the whiskey rebellion, I found it interesting that the arguments against taxes that prompted the Revolutionary War were the same in the whiskey rebellion--except it was the newly formed US government playing the British role against the whiskey-drinking frontiersmen revolutionaries. And it seemed the US government acted without any acknowledgment of its hypocrisy as it attempted to crush the rebellion.

And it seems that the man has long, enduring roots of messing with your hooch.

posted by soup @ 8:48 AM