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How America Was Founded On Booze and Taxes
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Running a country with huge debts, George Washington taxed the young country’s farmer distillers, leading to the Whiskey Rebellion.
Noah Rothbaum
Former Half Full Editor
Published
Apr. 17 2016
12:15AM EDT
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Noah Rothbaum
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