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Why did Alexander Hamilton want a tax on whiskey
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Why did Alexander Hamilton want a tax on whiskey

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The tax was resisted by farmers in the western frontier regions who were long accustomed to distilling their surplus grain and corn into whiskey.
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Because the taxes would pay back and fund the new American Government.
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