Whiskey Distilling

In western Pennsylvania, Hamilton made the local guy who was the biggest distiller and also just the biggest businessman of the area, made him the tax collector. So he got a cut of the taxes that he collected from his poorer neighbors. And then it was a sort of double boon to the big producers, because they also were the tax collectors often, right? The big distilleries. Incredibly. I mean, yes, I mean, it's not incredible, of course. It's like, oh, yeah, right. You see this, all of your hopes from when you were young in this almost parody of corruption," she says.