Large producers, who are businessmen, are more…
1792 CE
Large producers, who are businessmen, are more willing to accept the new tax.
They can make an annual tax payment of six cents per gallon.
A smaller producer, who only occasionally makes whiskey, must make payments throughout the year at a rate of about nine cents per gallon.
Because large producers can reduce the cost of the excise tax if they produce even larger quantities, the new tax gives the large producers a competitive advantage over small producers, who are generally in the western counties.
Therefore, acceptance of the excise tax varies with the scale of the production.
The western small farmers detest the excise because it is only payable in cash, in short supply on the western frontier.
Due to the effort required to transport any product over the mountains back to the markets of the East, farmers feel it makes greater sense to transport the distilled spirits of their grain rather than the raw grain itself.
Groups
Regions
Northern North America
View →Subregions
