Founding Finance with William Hogeland
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The Whiskey Tax and Its Effects on the Economy
The whiskey tax was designed to put the small producer out of business and consolidate the industry around big producers. The people on the ground out west had the economic critique to see exactly what it was in a way that many of the elites, Hamilton's opponents in the East didn't saw. It really just sort of crushed the place where the, where democratic action had really shifted to the, the West as it was called then.
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