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Government getting their part. >> the government is like, wait a minute, that's not fair. we want our part of it. good old uncle sam. in 1791 alexander hamilton -- no, not that one -- decided to impose a luxury tax on whiskey which is people did not take too kindly to as they just left another country because of taxes. also, they like drinking whisky. avoiding those taxes led to the term "moonshine." folks began making their whiskey by the light of the moon to avoid detection. the same way i eat ice cream in the middle of the night so my wife doesn't know. oops, she knows. how important is moo...

It all boils back to the government getting their part. >> the government is like, wait a minute, that's not fair. we want our part of it. good old uncle sam. and i don't mean jackson. in 1791 alexander hamilton -- no, not that one -- decided to impose a luxury tax on whiskey which the people did not take too kindly to as they just left another country because of taxes. also, they like drinking whisky. avoiding those taxes led to the term "moonshine." folks began making their whiskey by the light of the moon to avoid detection. the same way i eat ice cream in the middle of the night so my wife...

>> the government is like, wait a minute, that's not fair. we want our part of it. good old uncle sam. in 1791 alexander hamilton -- no, not that one -- decided to impose a luxury tax on whiskey which is people did not take too kindly to as they just left another country because of taxes. also, they like drinking whisky. avoiding those taxes led to the term "moonshine." folks began making their whiskey by the light of the moon to avoid detection. the same way i eat ice cream in the middle of the night so my wife doesn't know. oops, she knows. how important is moonshine to the culture of being ...

So, it all boils back to the government getting nir part. >> the government is like, wait, that's not fair. want our part. >> good old uncle sam. in 1791 alexander hamilton decided to impose a luxury tax on whisky, which the people did not take too kindly to because they just left another country because of taxes. also, they like drinking whisky. avoiding those taxes led to the term moonshine. they made whisky by the moon. the. >> how important is moonshine to the culture of being from this part of the country? people think about this area as being coal mines. does that have this level of impo...