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Breaking Bourbon - A Brief History
This past monday was considered tax day in the united states, which is the dead line that most tax payers across the country have to file their income tax returns. But long before the income tax, there was another tax called the whisky tax. And that first tax was actually imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed united states government. The tax was intended to generate revenue for the debt incurred during the revolutionary war. Today, approximately half the price of the bottle whisky goes towards taxes.
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