The True Reason "Moonshine" Is Illegal - Hard To Tax. Now, New Eart...

When I was a kid, it was legal to distill liquor, just illegal to sell it without the tax stamp. My grandfather had a small still in the woods behind his hunting cabin in New Hampshire's White Mountains. He drank his own creations, never sold any, and was ignored by the local police (except for one who asked for and obtained the occasional "free sample").

These days, the ban on all home distilling is to preserve the profits of the big licensed distillers and the tax revenues collected from them. That is of course a very fascist approach, banning home-made anything to force people to spend money buying the corporate-made versions.

But my grandfather always told me that black power and white lightning was what made America great! :)