
The Dig: Founding Finance with William Hogeland
Jacobin Radio
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The Whiskey Rebellion
The whiskey tax was a sort of double boon to the big producers because they also were the tax collectors often right. The biggest whiskey distiller John Neville general Neville is the tax collector collecting from his poorer neighbors because he's a crony of Washington and Hamilton well husband kind of freaked out you know like there was an idea there was going to be something much much bettermuch different opposite really of that kind of corruption fundamental corruption built into the system. He thought it was the last battle between in America between forces for potential good which to him meant fairness economic fairness and forces for evil a satanic evil.
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